BCIG BRAINSTORMING
SESSION: "Should We Explore the i-biopsy Concept at the NIH?”
Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical
Board Room (Room 2C116)
Topic: About a year ago we conducted a BCIG Brainstorming Session in
which we dialogued about the concept of the intelligent virtual biopsy. The idea
is to develop intelligent computational models that process appropriate mixes of
clinical, genetic, demographic, imaging, and/or biomedical signal data
associated with an individual patient to arrive at comparable or better results
that would be produced from examination of a biopsy sample. Dr. Alexandru
Floares, a Romanian physician and computer scientist has achieved some successes
with this idea which he is now calling the “i-biopsy.” His successes have been
high accuracy prediction of liver and prostate biopsy outcomes. Dr. Floares will
give a BCIG lecture on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 3:30 p.m. in the NIH
Clinical Center (old) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116). His lecture is entitled
“Can Intelligent Systems Replace Invasive Medical Procedures? Early Insights
with the Liver and Prostate i-biopsy Concept.” On Wednesday, November 12, 2008
we will have an unstructured BCIG Brainstorming Session to explore the question
“Should We Pursue the i-biopsy Concept at the NIH?” If you have a keen interest
(pro, con or neutral) in this topic and are willing to engage in an active
dialogue about it please attend this session. We are hoping that individuals
that can bring medical, computational, ethical, technology transfer and
administrative perspectives on this topic will attend.
NIH CONTACT: Jim DeLeo, 301-496-3848
jdeleo@nih.gov
BCIG WEB SITE: www.nih-bcig.org
NIH VISITOR INFORMATION:
http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/
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3:30 pm to 5:00 pm November 12 2008
FACILITATORS:
Jim DeLeo and Alexandru G. Floares
Jim DeLeo
Chief, Scientific Computing Section Chief,
NIH Clinical Center Chair, Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG)
Building 10, CRC Room 4-3330
Department of Clinical Research Informatics
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Phone: 301-496-3848
Who Should Attend? Anyone interested
in any way about this subject is encouraged to attend!
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