Medical imaging, 19th-21st century
Research, industry and health
Auditorium of the Brain Institute, Paris 13e
September 29, 2022
The next colloquium of the Comité pour l’histoire de l’Inserm, “Imagerie médicale : recherche, industrie et santé, 19-21e siècle”, whose program has been drawn up with Professor André Syrota and Professor Pascal Griset, will be held on September 29, 2022 at the Auditorium of the Institut du Cerveau, Paris, in partnership with Sorbonne Université, UMR Sirice, the Institut d’études avancées de Paris and with the support of the ICM.
From the earliest uses of X-rays to the most recent developments in multimodal imaging, medical imaging has been a key area of change for medicine.
The field of imaging has multiple dimensions – research, industry, clinical, economic – and, above all, medical imaging has found itself associated in recent years with other medical issues such as genomics and telemedicine, thanks to developments in computing, artificial intelligence and networks that were unimaginable until recently. It also quickly became apparent that “seeing” inside the body was redefining the relationship between caregivers and patients. Technological advances are calling into question the status of the doctor, his or her place in the system and, in the case of the most recent developments (artificial intelligence, for example), the very role of the specialist in diagnosis.
The colloquium will address all these perspectives from a historical perspective. The links between historical dynamics and present-day issues will be manifold. They will concern economic and social issues (the cost of and access to equipment, industrial policy), ethical issues (the role of the doctor in diagnosis, access to data), cultural issues (the relationship with images, the trivialization of high technology) and scientific issues (the relationship between engineers, computer scientists and biomedical researchers).
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