BMC Medical Imaging is calling for submissions to our Collection on evidence-based medicine in cancer imaging.
Evidence-based medicine is crucial, as clinical practice should not be based on findings from a single primary study without insight on their reproducibility.
Cancer imaging is an essential tool to guide clinicians in patient management, from diagnosis to treatment planning and follow-up. It involves specialists, including radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, physicists, biomedical engineers, oncologists, radiation therapists and surgeons, representing the base for a multidisciplinary approach. Consequently, multidisciplinary approach based The choice of the most appropriate imaging technique to investigate cancer among the multiple available options is not always straightforward for the clinicians.
This collection gives researchers the opportunity to publish articles presenting evidence synthesis in the field of cancer imaging. This includes systematic reviews and meta-analysis studies focusing on novel imaging and tracking methods, as well as on the evaluation of less cutting-edge or less recent methods applied to cancer research and clinical practice.
Please find below a non-exhaustive list of topics that will be considered:
- Conventional and functional imaging in cancer management, which includes cancer detection, differentiation, treatment monitoring, radiation treatment planning and outcome prediction (short-term and long-term).
- Clinical application of medical imaging to identify biological biomarkers (such as histological, immunological markers) in cancer management.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis and change of management by means of imaging techniques.
- Machine-learning based techniques, such as radiomics analysis and artificial intelligence, applied to medical imaging for cancer management.