Technical Scope for each Breakout Session and Session Chair Contacts

Preparation for the six concurrent breakout sessions is being organized by each Breakout Session Chair. They will be holding conference calls with various thought leaders and experts before September 8, 2006 to assist them in developing an overview of the technical topic area to open the discussion, as well as their facilitation of the discussion to ensure effective coverage of ideas during the time limits of a workshop environment.

If you would like to send your thoughts on any of the topics to the Session Chairs, you are encouraged to do so by Noon ET on September 5, 2006. This is an option; you are free to bring up your ideas at the Breakout Session without sending them to the Chairs in advance. Due to the nature of the two day sessions, attendees are strongly encouraged to dedicate their participation to only one of the six breakout topic areas. If you have an interest in more than one area, feel free to send ideas to the chairs in those areas you will not be attending. The detailed guidelines for the Breakout Sessions are also provided: [Overall Goal of Breakout Sessions v7]

Modality Areas #1-3: Overall Scope Guidance:
Modality focused areas should include discussion of phantom design, physical performance measurements of imaging system, and image modeling and image processing methods for measurement of change over time for the modalities in the session, focused on the predominant measurement challenges for that area.

Area #1: X-Ray & X-Ray CT: What can be measured over time?
(Disease models: Lung Cancer, Bone Imaging and Osteoarthritis)
Chair: Charles Peterfy, MD - Synarc charles.peterfy@synarc.com or arnold.galano@synarc.com (backup)

Area #2: PET & PET CT: What can be measured over time?
(Disease models: Alzheimer's Disease and Lung Cancer)
Chair: Paul Kinahan, PhD -- University of Washington kinahan@u.washington.edu

Area #3: MRI, MRS, DCE and Diffusion MRI: What can be measured over time?
(Disease models: Cardiology, Oncology, Osteoarthritis)
Chair: Jeffrey L. Evelhoch, PhD - Amgen evelhoch@amgen.com

IT Methods Areas #4-6: Overall Scope and Guidance:
Some modality specific IT issues may come out the above discussions. However, the predominant discussion of cross-cutting information technology issues will be focused in these three areas.

Area #4: Open architecture and software tools: Image and meta-data collection and analysis, data integration and display
Chair: Larry Tarbox, PhD -- Washington University tarboxl@mir.wustl.edu

Area #5: Resources for qualification of imaging systems, benchmarking of image processing and data integration tools, and related statistical methods.
Chair: Nicholas Petrick, PhD - CDRH, FDA nicholas.petrick@fda.hhs.gov

Area #6: Data archival and access methods: Image, related meta-data and clinical outcome data, related data interoperability standards, and innovative methodologies for data interpretation.
Chair: Mike Vannier, MD - University of Chicago mvannier@uchicago.edu