1. Richard Cavanagh Director, Special Programs Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Department of Commerce
and
Co-chair of the Interagency Working Group on Medical Imaging

2. Interagency Working Group on Medical Imaging - IWGMI
Standardize Image Acquisition and Storage
Apply Advanced Computation and Machine Learning to Medical Imaging
Accelerate the Development and Translation of New, High Value Imaging Techniques
Promote Best Practices in Medical Imaging
This audience is probably already well aware of the interagency roadmap that was released in December. This is a very complete, but high level view opportunities that exist.

3. NIST Mission
Promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
Take a minute to talk about why NIST is engaged in this effort -

4. NIST Strategy
To accomplish our mission, we depend on Trust, NIST Core Values and Talented People
In our Measurements
In other’s Measurements
In Technologies
Across Sectors
NIST is not a REGULATORY AGENCY

5. Cultivating Trust in Our Measurements
NIST establishes the methods that assure physically meaningful measurements
“Primary” measurements appeal directly to fundamental physical constants
Field (clinical) measurements are traceably linked to primary standards to assure data are acquirable, usable, and physically meaningful
Polyurethane foam of different density
100 mm
Density standard for medical computed tomography
NIST SRM 2088

6. Cultivating Trust in Others’ Measurements
When doing quantitative imaging, 20% variation across a single manufacturer’s machines
ISMRM Ad Hoc Committee for Standards in Quantitative MRI. "Comparison of T1 Measurement Using the ISMRM/NIST Phantom". Proceedings of the ISMRM 24th Meeting, #3290, Singapore, 2016.

7. Cultivating Trust in AI Technologies
AI systems typically make decisions based on data-driven models created by machine learning.
Inherent uncertainties need to be characterized and assessed through standardized approaches to assure the technology is safe and reliable.
Evaluation protocols must be developed and new metrics are needed to provide quantitative support for standards including data, performance, interoperability, usability, security, and privacy.
NIST cultivates trust in technology by developing and deploying standards, tests and metrics that make technology more secure, usable, interoperable and reliable, and by strengthening measurement science.
In contrast with deterministic rule-based systems, where reliability and safety may be built in and proven by design, AI systems typically make decisions based on data-driven models created by machine learning. Inherent uncertainties need to be characterized and assessed through standardized approaches to assure the technology is safe and reliable. Evaluation protocols must be developed and new metrics are needed to provide quantitative support to a broad spectrum of standards including data, performance, interoperability, usability, security, and privacy.

8. Cultivating Trust Across Sectors
Federal Government
State/Local Government
Healthcare Providers and Payers
Academia
Device and Pharmaceutical Industry
Patients and advocates
This figure, from the roadmap, is the federal sliced of the trust issue. Need to address the non-federal stakeholders.

9. NIST Core Values Perseverance Integrity Inclusivity Excellence
Integrity and Excellence are self evident.
Excellence

10. NIST Core Values
Perseverance - We take the long view, planning the future with scientific knowledge and imagination to ensure continued impact and relevance for our stakeholders.
Inclusivity - We work collaboratively to harness the diversity of people and ideas, both inside and outside of NIST, to attain the best solutions to multidisciplinary challenges.

11. Talented People Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Society of Interventional Radiology
Agfa Healthcare
MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science
TeraRecon
American College of Radiology
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
UCLA
American Society for Neuroradiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
UCSD
Canon Medical Research USA, Inc.
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Umass Medical School
Cavarocchi-Ruscio-Dennis
Mount Sinai Health System
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Carestream
National Institutes of Health
University of Pennsylvania
Cleveland Clinic
National Institutes of Health/NIBIB
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Department of Veteran Affairs
NIH/NIBIB
Vital Images, Inc
Emory University
NIH/National Cancer Institute
Washington U School of Med
EnvoyAI
National Institute of Standards and Technology
White House Office of Science Technology Policy
Epic R&D
National Physical Laboratory, UK
FDA/AIUM
OSU Wexner Medical Center
GE Healthcare
Philips Research North America
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
QalibreMD, Inc
IBM Watson Health Imaging
Radiological Society of North America
John Hopkins University
Siemens-Healthineers
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas
Soc. for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
Lenox Hill Hospital
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

12. Thanks for Coming and Engaging