Meeting report
The future of medical diagnostics: review paper
1 The "Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society" Council, The International Society of Minimally Invasive Diagnostics, University College London, London, UK
2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
3 Academic Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
4 UCL Department of Surgery, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, London, UK
5 Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
6 UCLH Head and Neck Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK
7 The Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, The University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
8 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
9 Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
10 Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
11 Dept. of Radiation Biology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Norway
12 Virginia Piper Cancer Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minnesota, USA
13 Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
14 National Medical Laser Centre, University College London Department of Surgery, London, UK
15 School of Physics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
16 Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, USA
17 Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
18 Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
19 Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
20 Biophotonics Research Group, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, UK
21 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Plastic Head and Neck Surgery, Aachen University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Germany
22 Centro de Pesquisa em Óptica e Fotônica, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
23 Research Centre for Automatic Control (CRAN), Nancy-University, UMR CNRS, France
24 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Boston University, Boston, USA
25 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, USA
26 National Research Council Canada-Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
27 Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
28 Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
29 Michelson Diagnostics, Orpington, Kent, UK
30 Department of Histopathology, Imperial College and The Hammersmith Hospitals, London, UK
31 National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore
32 LIFE Center, University Clinic Munich, Munich, Germany
33 Division of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
34 Department of Head & Neck Oncology & Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
35 Division of BioPhysics and BioImaging, Ontario Cancer Institute, Ontario, Canada
36 Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
37 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA
Head & Neck Oncology 2011, 3:38 doi:10.1186/1758-3284-3-38
Published: 23 August 2011Abstract
While histopathology of excised tissue remains the gold standard for diagnosis, several new, non-invasive diagnostic techniques are being developed. They rely on physical and biochemical changes that precede and mirror malignant change within tissue. The basic principle involves simple optical techniques of tissue interrogation. Their accuracy, expressed as sensitivity and specificity, are reported in a number of studies suggests that they have a potential for cost effective, real-time, in situ diagnosis.
We review the Third Scientific Meeting of the Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society held in Congress Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria on the 11th May 2011. For the first time the HNODS Annual Scientific Meeting was held in association with the International Photodynamic Association (IPA) and the European Platform for Photodynamic Medicine (EPPM). The aim was to enhance the interdisciplinary aspects of optical diagnostics and other photodynamic applications. The meeting included 2 sections: oral communication sessions running in parallel to the IPA programme and poster presentation sessions combined with the IPA and EPPM posters sessions.
