Resumen
The article discusses computational bioimaging for medical diagnosis and treatment. The coming decades will experience an explosion in the use and scope of medical imaging, and the fuel for this fire will be computing and visualization. Though the complexity of the human body still outstrips the capabilities of even the most powerful computational systems, and will for some time to come, computer scientists working with surgeons and radiologists will produce higher and higher resolution and combine imaging modalities to create effective, interactive visualizations. Computer-assisted imaging will be more ubiquitous, in turn producing new scientific and clinical specialties that rely on special combinations of imaging, computer science, and medicine. Medical visualizations will play an ever greater role in medical research and practice and that medical researchers will use visualization and virtual/enhanced reality to work collaboratively despite being separated by great distances. Educational training will emerge as the largest obstacle to such a revolution, as universities tend to lag far behind advances in technology, especially in multidisciplinary application areas.