Data science has gained much interest recently with advances in data mining and analytic platforms. As an extension, medical image data is rich with information. The information embedded in images has traditionally been studied in the context of region-based (i.e., regions of interest) analysis. More recently, the spatial information in images has been interrogated with the advances in multi-modality quantitative imaging methodologies and radiomic pipelines to develop classes of image features and morphology. Since images represent the phenotype of the underlying biology, perhaps not surprisingly, numerous studies have also established correlations between quantitative image features and genomic, proteomic, and pathologic data. Importantly, there is a large body of works with applications of image data science demonstrating efficacy in disease detection, prediction therapeutic response, and patient stratification among other applications.

In this context, the overall mission statement of the IDS-IG is to advance the application of image data science across all research domains of interest to members of the WMIS.

The IDS-IG will focus on the following areas of research to advance its mission:

• Applications and advances in quantitative imaging, radiomics and computational imaging
• Imaging physics to ensure QA/QC and standardized application of image data science when applicable
• Machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence in imaging and decision science
• Integration of image data science with multi-scale information
• Development of computational models of human disease in concert with imaging data
• Imaging informatics as a platform to integrate and automate image data science pipelines

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