Imaging and informatics at the National Cancer Institute, part 1.

Two major themes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that are especially important to radiologists are the use of imaging and informatics to improve the nation’s health. The NIH’s Director, Elias Zerhouni, MD [ 1 Zerhouni E. NIH vision, concepts, and strategies for medical research. Available at: http://www.scardonline.org/pdf/2004/scard_fall_program_pdf. Google Scholar , 2 Zerhouni E. NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. http://www.amia.org/meetings/fo5/. Google Scholar ], recently emphasized the significance of these ideas in keynote presentations given to the Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments last fall and recently at the 2005 fall meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association.