Subj:   WashCAS 10/23 meeting

Sponser:  WashCAS
Location:  Medical Center at Georgetown Univ
           3800 Reservoir Road
           Washington, DC
           (directions will be in a follow up email)
Date:  10/23, Tuesday
Time: 6:30 - ? (see original message below)
Speaker:  Dr. King Li, MD, MBA
          Chair of Diagnostic Radiology Dept
          Clinical Center, NIH
Title:   Biomedical Imaging in the New Millennium
Note:  Please email Kevin Cleary at Georgetown University
        if you think you might attend so he can plan refreshments
        cleary@georgetown.edu

Abstract:

Biomedical Imaging in the New Millennium
King C.P. Li, MD, MBA
Associate Director, Radiology and Imaging Sciences Program

For the past century, radiologic-pathologic correlation has been the
backbone of medical imaging.  By correlating medical images to gross
and histologic pathologic images, we can gain an understanding of
what causes the in vivo medical images to appear the way they are
and learn how to use medical images as in vivo surrogates for gross
and to a lesser extent histologic pathology.  With the successful
mapping of the human genome and the rapidly advancing technologies
of functional genomics and proteomics, we will soon be able to
quantify the level of expression of every single gene and many
different proteins from every tissue sample obtained.  Similarly,
rapid advances have been made in functional and molecular imaging
allowing us to gather much more than anatomic data from living
tissues in vivo.  With the explosion of available data from in vivo
imaging and in vitro tissue analysis, correlating these enormous
data sets are much more complicated than the mostly visual
radiologic-pathologic correlation methodology that we have relied
on for a long time.  In order for medical imaging to be an integral
part of molecular medicine, we need to begin exploring the synergy
between imaging and state-of-the-art tissue analysis techniques.  To
facilitate this, we also need to collaborate with our bioinformatics
colleagues to develop new analysis tools to handle the vast amount
of data.

Original Message:
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Dear WashCAS attendee:

The Fall 2001 Washington Area Computer Aided Surgery Society
(WashCAS) program will begin with a talk by King Li, M.D., titled
"Biomedical Imaging in the New Millennium" on Tuesday, October 23rd
at 6:30 pm. Dr. Li is the new chair of Diagnostic Radiology at NIH
and is an expert in Molecular Imaging. An abstract of the talk is
below.

Due to the difficulty of getting on-site at NIH or USUHS, we will
hold the talk at the Medical Center at Georgetown University at 3800
Reservoir Road in Washington, DC. Directions will be sent in a
follow-up email later this week and posted at the WashCAS web site
at www.washcas.org.

After the talk and discussion, we will have a tour of the
interventional suite at Georgetown for those who are interested. We
will also demonstrate the needle driver robot developed at Johns
Hopkins Urobotics Laboratory that we are investigating for
robotically assisted spinal nerve blocks.

The schedule is:
        6:30 pm: arrival and sandwiches
        7:00 pm: talk by Dr. Li
        8:00 pm: discussion, then tour of interventional suite (optional)

So that we can plan the refreshments, please let me know by email if
you are even thinking of attending. We look forward to seeing
everyone at this first meeting of the Fall.

Regards,

Kevin Cleary
Georgetown University
cleary@georgetown.edu
(202) 687-8253