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... Many of the disciplines that can benefit from imaging share common technical problems. Yet researchers often develop ad hoc methods for solving individual tasks without building broader frameworks that could address many scientific problems.
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... Some can capture signaling molecules that are just a few hundred nanometers, others map neurons that are tens of micrometers, while still others track the electrical impulses coursing through our brains. But there is no framework for combining this grab-bag of techniques to say how signaling molecules relate to gray matter, or how an MRI scan showing shrinkage in an Alzheimer's disease–riddled brain corresponds to the lower oxygen usage shown on a PET scan.
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... They also hoped to adapt their observational methods, so that, instead of spending a fixed amount of time monitoring each portion of the sky, they could spend more time gathering light from promising areas while quickly moving on from less promising ones. Although adaptive optics has already revolutionized astronomy, team 5 aimed to extend the approach to other arenas.
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... The team envisioned developing standards for data searches and also imagined an architecture that supports image processing and operates as part of the database. The team developed a concept of exploratory tools that let people collect and analyze image data and imagined using machine learning to anticipate what someone is seeking, even when they're not quite sure themselves.
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