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QUANTITATIVE IMAGING and IMAGING BIOMARKERS
RSNA is committed to helping transform radiology from a qualitative to a more quantitative science, to help patients benefit from accelerated development and dissemination of new pharmacologic, biologic and interventional diagnosis and treatment approaches.
The Toward Quantitative Imaging (TQI) group developed the following working definition of quantitative imaging:
Quantitative imaging is the extraction of quantifiable features from medical images for the assessment of normal or the severity, degree of change, or status of a disease, injury, or chronic condition relative to normal. Quantitative imaging includes the development, standardization, and optimization of anatomical, functional, and molecular imaging acquisition protocols, data analyses, display methods, and reporting structures. These features permit the validation of accurately and precisely obtained image-derived metrics with anatomically and physiologically relevant parameters, including treatment response and outcome, and the use of such metrics in research and patient care.
The links above and to the left will connect you to pages highlighting programs and activities in quantitative imaging and imaging biomarker development.
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