<unk> , also known as radiology<unk>  or medical<unk> , is a subspecialty of biomedical<unk>  that aims to improve the efficiency, accuracy, usability and reliability of medical<unk>  services within the healthcare enterprise. It is devoted to the study of how information about and contained within medical images is retrieved, analyzed, enhanced, and exchanged throughout the medical enterprise. As radiology is an inherently data-intensive and technology-driven specialty, those in this branch of medicine have become leaders in<unk> . However, with the proliferation of digitized images across the practice of medicine to include fields such as cardiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, surgery, gastroenterology, obstetrics, gynecology and pathology, the advances in<unk>  are also being tested and applied in other areas of medicine. Various industry players and vendors involved with medical<unk> , along with IT experts and other biomedical<unk>  professionals, are contributing and getting involved in this expanding field.<unk>  exists at the intersection of several broad fields: *biological science – includes bench sciences such as biochemistry, microbiology, physiology and genetics *clinical services – includes the practice of medicine, bedside research, including outcomes and cost-effectiveness studies, and public health policy *information science – deals with the acquisition, retrieval, cataloging, and archiving of information *medical physics / biomedical engineering – entails the use of equipment and technology for a medical purpose *cognitive science – studying human computer interactions, usability, and information visualization *computer science – studying the use of computer algorithms for applications such as computer assisted diagnosis and computer vision
Imaging informatics
Radiological information system
Nuclear technology
Biological terrain assessment
Biochemistry
Radiopaedia
Radiomics
Nuclear Medicine and Biology