Digital Image Quality in Medicine
Making a good diagnostic image is only the beginning; keeping it good and diagnostically sound is a much more difficult proposition, one that is often neglected or forgotten by clinical practitioners. With anything digital, the assumption of persistent or
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Oleg S. Pianykh
Digital Image Quality in Medicine
Understanding Medical Informatics How It Really Works Series Editor Oleg S. Pianykh
Oleg S. Pianykh
Digital Image Quality in Medicine
Oleg S. Pianykh MGH Department of Radiology Harvard Medical School Newton, MA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-01759-4 ISBN 978-3-319-01760-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01760-0 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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To my dear wife Dasha, and our wonderful kids.
Why MI?
Preface 1: The Great Method Gap Even doctors use it! Advertisement for popular videoconferencing software
“So, what is medical informatics?” – asked my friend, a bright radiologist, and I suddenly felt that one of us must have dropped from a different planet. Then it had to be me, because my division chair had asked me the same question the day before. After several years and many medical informatics (MI) projects we’ve done together! Gee, what was going on? I sat back and took a minute to contemplate my entire career in radiology. The career that started right after earning my computer science and math degrees, when I was looking for the practical beauty to justify the boredom of distilled logic. Was i
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