Medical Image Science

Medical image science comprises techniques and processes intended to create images of a person for medical purposes. It reaches across disciplines such as radiology, endoscopy, microscopy, image processing and visualization.

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Radiology means imaging the inside of the human body for the purpose of making a diagnosis. The term medical radiology includes diagnostic radiology as well as intervention - treatment guided by images.
 
Development over the last few years of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound and software for three-dimensional imaging offers entirely new opportunities for diagnosis and treatment. At the molecular and cellular level, the new techniques will make diagnosis possible before symptoms appear, and allow individually-adapted gene-based therapy with great precision. The surgery of the future will be bloodless and preserve healthy tissue.

Research

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CMIV Research School

CMIV offers a doctoral program with both medical and technological entries and coherent research education. A basic principle for the program is a close connection between different disciplines i.e medicine, health, technology, and natural sciences.

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Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV)

CMIV conducts focused front-line research providing solutions to tomorrow’s clinical issues. The CMIV mission is to develop future methods and tools for image analysis and visualization for applications within health care and medical research.

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MRI-based Body Composition Analysis

Metabolic risk related to body-fat accumulation is strongly dependent on fat distribution. This project has developed a method for quantitative assessment of body composition that measures both fat distribution and muscle volume.

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News

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Immune system ageing can be revealed by CT scan

Thymus may play a bigger role in the immune system of adults than was previously believed. With age, the glandular tissue in the thymus is replaced by fat, but the rate at which this happens is linked to sex, age and lifestyle factors.

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AI can help doctors work faster – but trust is crucial

For artificial intelligence (AI) to be helpful within healthcare, people and machines must work effectively together. A new study shows that doctors who use AI when examining tissue samples can work faster while still doing high-quality work.

Maria Engström next to a magnetic resonance scanner.

Mathematical modelling brings brain insights

Can we see what is happening in the brain? Yes, we can in a sense, using imaging technology. But the processes in the brain remain to a large extent mysterious. Researchers are now using modelling to help understand these processes.