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标题：Editorial
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作者：D. TIMMERMAN
期刊名称：Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn
印刷版ISSN：2032-0418
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
期号：1
出版社：Universa Press
摘要：This issue of Facts, Views and Vision in ObGyn is almost entirely dedicated to the second International Ovarian Tumour Analysis (IOTA) congress (17-18 April 2015, Leuven, Belgium). IOTA is an example of what can be achieved when there is good communication between different disciplines and selfless collaboration between departments both nationally and internationally. While preparing my PhD thesis in 1995 I attended the ESEGO congress in Gothenburg where I was most impressed by innovative lectures on ovarian tumour diagnosis and colour Doppler ultrasonography by Tom Bourne, now professor at Imperial College London, and Lil Valentin, professor in Malmö, Sweden. In the same year a lecture on Artificial Neural Networks given by Joos Vandewalle, professor in Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven was another stepping-stone of later research. These networks were trained by feeding them with examples and could solve difficult diagnostic problems and also make predictions. After his lecture I discussed with Prof Vandewalle potential applications in medicine. The next day we had a meeting in his office together with Sabine Van Huffel and Bart De Moor. This was the start of a long and very fruitful collaboration between medical specialists and civil engineers from the department of Electrical Engineering.