The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan: Opportunities in advanced imaging across the lung cancer care continuum.
Authors
Affiliations (17)
Affiliations (17)
- Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
- Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Accumetra, LLC, Clifton Park, New York, USA.
- Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Radiation Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
- RADIA Inc., PS, Lynnwood, Washington, USA.
- Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Data Science and Informatics, American College of Radiology, Reston, Virginia, USA.
- Frank Healthcare Advisors, Bronxville, New York, USA.
- Department of Cancer Physiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
- Division of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA.
- Center for Early Cancer Detection, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine, The Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, USA.
- Department of Radiology, University of Michigan/Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- Cardiovascular Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan/Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Abstract
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men and women. The goal of reducing mortality from lung cancer requires improvements in many aspects of the care pathway, beginning with early detection. Advances in imaging technologies and their application in clinical practice can contribute to addressing these challenges. As part of the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable's strategic plan, the roundtable's Advanced Imaging Across the Lung Cancer Care Continuum Task Group identified four advanced imaging technology topics as priority areas for development. These include novel (1) imaging technologies, (2) quantitative imaging biomarkers, (3) systems for sharing image data and/or algorithms, and (4) imaging-related artificial intelligence solutions. The authors provide background for each priority topic, describe key clinical problems along the lung cancer care pathway as use-case scenarios, and comment on challenges that impede implementation and dissemination of these potential advances.