Description
The objective of this course is to deliver the foundations, principles, and practices of medical imaging, their acquisition, management, exploration, analysis and interpretation with focus on practical tools and informatics skills. Digital health is transforming the way Canadians access health care, altering clinical workflows while providing unique opportunities for computing sciences to revolutionize health and operational decision making. In particular computing and AI have great potential to assist and augment radiological reading and decision making via automated detection of landmarks and pathologies in images. Skillsets and training for medical image acquisition, understanding, analysis and informatics is a key part of training for skilled workforce preparedness.