A New Way to Gain Additional Diagnostic Information from Radiology Images

I had previously thought that I had a good grasp of the term biomarkerwhen I posted a note about it more than thirteen years ago (see:Use of Term Biomarker vs. Analyte). The definition that I used at that time was:any molecular species found to provide correlation to a particular phenotype or perturbation of a biological system.Unstated at that time was that the molecular species was found in a biologic fluids like blood, serum, or urine. Now comes an article that upsets this definition but that makes a persuasive argument for doing so (see:U-M startup analyzes data from patient imaging files to help cure what ails them). Below is an excerpt from it:Digital medical image files such as X-rays, MRIs and CT scans fill roughly half of all existing electronic storage around the world.And a University of Michigan startup has figured out how to mine and analyze this Big Data with technology that could make treatment choices incredibly precise for each patient...Applied Morphomics Inc. is a biomarker technology and development company that assesses body factors essential for delivering precision medicine....A patient ’s body is their biological medical record and contains a tremendous amount of information that clinicians to date have not been able to comprehend. The [company's] technology extracts thousands of digital biomarkers from a patient ’s medical imaging files. From this data, physicians can pinpoint a patient’s condition, the state of...
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