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Medical Imaging Engineering Lab
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A medical imaging lab that explores the diagnosis of lung diseases from chest CT images.

AboutAbout the lab
Using chest CT to study the diagnosis of lung diseases.
The Medical Imaging Engineering Lab focuses on research into the diagnosis of lung diseases using chest CT images.
Research topics include CT diagnosis of lung cancer, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) on chest CT, CT diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia, and I-131 radionuclide therapy for thyroid cancer.
In graduate school, the lab belongs to Biomedical Imaging Information Science in the Department of Integrated Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine.
Key terms
- CT
- Short for computed tomography. An examination that images cross-sections of the inside of the body.
- Computer-aided diagnosis
- Also called CAD. A method in which computer analysis of images is used to support physicians' diagnoses.
- I-131 radionuclide therapy
- A treatment that uses radioactive iodine, I-131. In this lab, it is studied for thyroid cancer.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on research into the diagnosis of lung diseases based on chest CT images. Research topics include CT diagnosis of lung cancer and interstitial pneumonia, computer-aided diagnosis on chest CT, and I-131 radionuclide therapy for thyroid cancer.
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- ProfessorShingo Iwano
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Model positioned in computed tomography scanner” Daniel Sone (Photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
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