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This chapter describes the IMED project, a multidisciplinary, transnational effort to endow clinicians with state-of-the-art computer-based methods to assist them in the diagnosis of new breast cancer cases and to provide innovative training tools in specialized academic programs. It involves research and medical institutions in Portugal and Spain and its main achievements include (1) designing a workflow for radiographic data acquisition, annotation and analysis, (2) developing a workstation for computer-aided diagnosis and (3) creating a team of specialized radiologists, mathematicians and computer engineers sharing a common understanding and methodology on the domain.
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This work is part of the GRIDMED research collaboration project among CETA-CIEMAT (Spain), INEGI, FMUP-HSJ and UA (Portugal). The authors acknowledge to all the present and past project members of each institution for their contributions, especially to Prof. Dr. Isabel Ramos and Dr. Joana Loueiro from FMUP-HSJ, Prof. Mario Augusto Pires Vaz and Prof. Dr. Joaquim Silva Gomez from INEGI-FEUP and to Dr. Carmen Martín and Mr. Guillermo Díaz, from CETA-CIEMAT. The authors also want to thanks to Ms. María Vaquero, from InnoTech4Health, for the support received in the writing of this chapter. This work is also partially supported by project Cloud Thinking (University of Aveiro) (CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002031), co-funded by QREN, “Mais Centro” program. The four institutions express their gratitude to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF-FEDER), which partially funds the project.
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Franco-Valiente, J.M., Guevara-López, M.A., Ramos-Pollán, R. (2015). Multidisciplinary Collaboration for the Development of Innovative Solutions in Health Care: The Case of the IMED Project. In: Gurtner, S., Soyez, K. (eds) Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12178-9_30
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