Seeing the Future with Imaging Science: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries
Imaging science has the power to illuminate regions as remote as
distant galaxies, and as close to home as our own bodies. Many of
the disciplines that can benefit from imaging share common
technical problems, yet researchers often develop ad hoc methods
for solving individual tasks without building broader frameworks
that could address many scientific problems. At the 2010 National
Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Imaging Science,
researchers from academia, industry, and government formed 14
interdisciplinary teams created to find a common language and
structure for developing new technologies, processing and
recovering images, mining imaging data, and visualizing it
effectively. The teams spent nine hours over two days exploring
diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and
medicine. NAKFI Seeing the Future with Imaging Science contains the
summaries written by each team. These summaries describe the
problem and outline the approach taken, including what research
needs to be done to understand the fundamental science behind the
challenge, the proposed plan for engineering the application, the
reasoning that went into it, and the benefits to society of the
problem solution.
