From the Editor’s Desk

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The Journal of Digital imaging is privileged to showcase an excellent commentator this month. Bruce Reiner, MD., a radiologist from the University of Maryland, is writing a series of articles on the evolution of reporting radiological findings. The first of these, “The Challenges, Opportunities, and Imperative of Structured Reporting in Medical Imaging,” gives us a brief history of reporting and introduces the issues involved in moving forward into a structured reporting environment that includes full integration with hospital and radiology information systems, Picture Archiving and Communication Systems, and speech recognition. Future articles will include topics such as Reporting Workflow, Quantifying a Clinical Reporting Preferences for Radiology Reporting, Uncovering the Inherent Deficiencies of Radiology Reporting through Large-scale Data Mining, and a Review article on Structured Reporting Strategies. …