Clinical Imaging — Foundation Learning Guide¶
For a reader with no background in this area. If you have watched the Foundations film series, this follows directly from it.
The one idea to hold¶
Structured reporting turns 'there is narrowing' into a category everyone interprets the same way, which is what makes it actionable.
What this subject does with that idea¶
Reads medical scans and produces a graded, structured report a radiologist can act on.
Coronary CT to CAD-RADS 2.0 with modifiers, then a named genomic follow-up — imaging and genetics reasoning about the same patient.
Decision support for a qualified clinician — never autonomous diagnosis or prescribing. Every output on this page is intended to inform a clinician's judgement, not replace it.
What it cannot do¶
CAD-RADS is a reporting standard, not a diagnosis. The report supports a clinician's read; it does not replace it.
Stating the limit is not a disclaimer bolted on the end — it is how you tell a tool that helps from a tool that misleads.
Vocabulary you will meet¶
| Term | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Capability | One named thing the platform can do, registered in capabilities.json |
live / planned |
Whether a capability actually answers today, or is intended |
| Decision support | Output that informs a clinician; it never decides |
| LIVE / REPRESENTATIVE / BURST | Whether a demo ran now, was pre-computed, or ran on remote GPUs |
Try it¶
The demo for this subject is E4:
.venv/bin/python scripts/run_demo.py E4
If it reports BLOCKED, the message names exactly what is missing. That is intentional — a demo
that cannot run says so rather than showing you something canned.