Extracting Biomarkers From Dynamic Images Approaches And Challenges

Imaging technologies have developed rapidly over the past decade proving to be valuable and effective tools for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of many conditions, especially cancer. Dynamic contrast enhanced imaging using computed tomography or magnetic resonance has been shown particularly effective and has been intensively studied to allow for assessing the vascular support of various tumours and other tissues. In this paper, we discuss current approaches and most important challenges in extracting markers from such dynamic images. These difficulties have to be resolved in order to ultimately improve patient care.