Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration and Medical-Engineering Cooperation on CAD in Terms of Physician

Abstract

Development of computer-aided diagnosis or detection (CAD) requires maintenance of a database and collaboration with physicians who can explain the characteristics of the lesion and engineers who can design a program. Mutual communications and the handling of performance are important for efficiently proceeding with the research on a joint basis. While the participation of corporations is key to the commercialization of the outcomes of research, studies will be conducted by each of the corporations, physicians, and engineers, and areas will be developed together cooperatively. It is important to clearly express opinions to corporations when the results of a new initiative are inadequate because a poorly formed opinion and a compliant evaluation cause confusion and result in mistakes later.