MICCAI 2019 Tuesday

MICCAI 2019 DAILY 5 Prof. Qiyong Gong And there are hundreds of millions of people who would need such a tool. Absolutely true. At least 1 in every 10 people suffer. So, it’s almost 1 billion people today in the world? 1.1 billion, to be accurate. Less than 1 in 5 people have access to these therapeutic clinics. How do you explain why this has not been studied in depth until now? You’re right, because previously, I think the first study published on this psychiatric disorder was by a group from the UK. That paper was published in Lancet, a great medical journal, in 1976. After that, it was quiet for several decades, until early this century when there was a flourish of investigation using MR to investigate psychiatric disorders. The main driver for this is advances in MR imaging development. We basically took advantage of the multimodality nature of this MR imaging facility to investigate psychiatric disorders and found that there are a variety of biomarkers that have a great translational value for clinical application. That’s where we started. I understand now how, from the radiology field, you became closer to the psychiatric field. Actually, this is the connection between the two. You’re right. Essentially, I’ma radiologist, with a subfield of neuroradiology. As neuroradiologists, we specialize in diagnosing neurological diseases, such as infections, tumors, Alzheimer’s. We have no opportunity to touch on psychiatric disorders. I think that’s a shame for radiologists, particularly neuroradiologists. This is how the field of psychoradiology has emerged. Is it already a field in your view? Yes, it already has a definition on Radiopaedia, and a comprehensive review of psychoradiology has been published in Radiology, which is the leading journal for radiologists. This gives a strong indication that the subfield will be clinically available. In my hospital, West China Hospital, we have clinics for psychoradiology. Also, there’s a psychoradiologist in Amsterdam called Professor Reneman. She claims to be one of the first generation of psychoradiologists. Basically, we do a number of things to support psychoradiology, like trying to translate various findings to help clinicians to deal with psychiatric disorders. Thinking about 10 years from now, what do you hope psychoradiology Professor Gong with student Nanfang Pan