TY - JOUR
AU - Javitt, Marcia C.
AB - Open Access Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal REVIEW ARTICLE th Special Issue Celebrating the 80 Anniversary of Rambam Health Care Campus Medical Imaging: From Roentgen to the Digital Revolution, and Beyond 1 1,2 Eyal Bercovich, M.D. * and Marcia C. Javitt, M.D. 1 2 Department of Medical Imaging, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; and The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel ABSTRACT Today medical imaging is an essential component of the entire health-care continuum, from wellness and screening, to early diagnosis, treatment selection, and follow-up. Patient triage in both acute care and chronic disease, imaging-guided interventions, and optimization of treatment planning are now integrated into routine clinical practice in all subspecialties. This paper provides a brief review of major milestones in medical imaging from its inception to date, with a few considerations regarding future directions in this important field. KEY WORDS: Machine learning, medical imaging, radiology, radiomics, theranostics THE BEGINNING Until November 8, 1895, physicians had no access to discovered a “new kind of ray” that he called “X- pictures of what was happening inside a patient’s rays” while experimenting with a Crookes cathode body. On that fateful day, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 
TI - Medical Imaging: From Roentgen to the Digital Revolution, and Beyond
JF - Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
DO - 10.5041/rmmj.10355
DA - 2018-10-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/medical-imaging-from-roentgen-to-the-digital-revolution-and-beyond-LX11wvqDZp
DP - DeepDyve
ER -