Imaging Informatics Research Articles

42 Age-Related Alterations in Representational Forms of Imagination: A Novel Scoring Protocol Applied to Autobiographical Memory

Objective:Human imagination is a complex system that allows us to form images or concepts in the mind that are not present to the senses. Research on imagination has been heavily influenced by the idea that humans store two distinct types of long-term memory: episodic and semantic memory. This theoretical distinction is particularly important in the context of aging, where older adults show reduced episodic memory compared to semantic memory (Levine et al., 2002). However, recent work has shown that these two memories are not as distinct as once thought (Renoult et al., 2019; Irish & Vatansever, 2020), suggesting a need to either refine the relationship between these concepts, or the concepts themselves.Here, we apply a broader framework for imagination to the autobiographical memories of older adults. Introduced by Andrews-Hanna & Grilli (2021), memory and future thoughts can be understood as the outcome of the collaboration between two representational forms of imagination: the mind’s mind and the mind’s eye. The mind’s mind is described as a high-level, abstract form of imagination accompanied by a verbal representational form, and the mind’s eye is described as a contextually-specific, image-based form of imagination. In the present study, we examine whether this broader framework for understanding imaginative thought can a) explain some of the established age-related changes in episodic and semantic memory, and b) extend beyond existing research to offer new ways to conceptualize autobiographical memory in aging.Participants and Methods:In this study, we introduce a novel scoring protocol distinguishing mind’s eye from mind’s mind forms of imagination and apply this protocol to the autobiographical memories of eighty-two cognitively normal older adults. Participants were instructed to retrieve unique autobiographical events, and to focus on describing event-specific details. All data were scored both with our new scoring protocol as well as the Autobiographical Interview scoring protocol from Levine et al. (2002).Results:Our novel scoring protocol demonstrated high inter-rater reliability across two raters for both mind’s mind (0.95) and mind’s eye (0.96) details. First, we show that the proportion of mind’s mind and mind’s eye details on average are significantly different, with an increased proportion of mind’s eye details. Second, we find that both mind’s eye detail production and mind’s mind detail production is significantly reduced with age, whereas only internal details decline across age when scored with the Autobiographical Interview scoring procedure.Conclusions:The new scoring protocol suggests that both mind’s mind and mind’s eye details undergo change with age, a finding that shares similarities and differences with results from the Autobiographical Interview scoring technique. Taken together, our results hint at a more elaborate set of detail types forming autobiographical memories that change with age, with implications for understanding episodic and semantic memory.

Solitary Confinement, Aloneness, and Sociability in Sterne

Laurence Sterne develops his complex approach towards solitude throughout his fictional and non-fictional writings. Ranging between A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Bramine's Journal, Letters from Yorick to Eliza, and Sterne's sermons, this article explores how Sterne juxtaposes the pleasures of retirement with more painful loneliness, and the opportunities that each opens up for sometimes challenging self-contemplation. Various locations stimulate Sterne's engagement with this relationship in differing ways: simply, the enjoyable solitude of country retreat contrasts with the superficial busyness of city life; but for Sterne the opportunity to attain greater self-knowledge comes through his interactions with others. Alone, he must construct imaginary forms of sociability, especially with his beloved but absent Eliza, whom he brings into a fictive conversation through his writing. In the process, the quixotism of Sterne's sentimental authorial persona leads not to a performance of feeling, but to an embrace of human frailty and hopefulness alike.

Sanghyang Sampat Dance in Puluk - Puluk Village as an Idea for Creating Painting Works

This independent study report has the theme Sanghyang Sampat Dance in Puluk-Puluk Village as an Idea to Create Paintings. The choice of partners in Galung Wiratmaja is due to their different characteristics from the others. The specialty in terms of choosing color mixing, the choice of painting objects tends to be in the form of imagination in the form of the natural environment. The visual appearance created has an appeal, because taking objects displays the back of the object and creates an impression of interest to those who see it. Sanghyang Sampat is a tradition that developed in the village of Puluk-Puluk Penebel, Tabanan, this tradition exists for the welfare of people who have livelihoods as farmers. Sanghyang Sampat dance is a Bugis tradition that is highly trusted by the local community. Art as an element of culture is also born as a result of the demands of religious activity. There are many ways to preserve the Sanghyang Sampat Dance Tradition, one of which is by visualizing the dance in a painting medium, to encourage the creation of various symbolic-magical art forms which are representations of something abstract. In inspiring the Sanghyang Sampat Dance, artists process their visual forms into forms of personal expression, and there are also those who bring it up through an interpretation of the meaning and value of sanghyang sampat, which in visualization may give rise to new forms as personal codes. in his work. In this case, the Sanghyang Sampat Dance is a source of ideas for artists in creating modern works of art without leaving traditional values behind.

The Intersection of Radiology With Blockchain and Smart Contracts: A Perspective.

Although blockchain technology and smart contracts are garnering attention in various sectors, their applications and familiarity within the realm of radiology remain largely unexplored. Blockchain, a decentralized digital ledger technology, offers secure, transparent, and resilient data management by distributing the verification process across a network of independent entities. This decentralized technology presents a possible solution for a range of healthcare challenges, from secure data transfer to automated verification processes. To address such challenges in the context of medical imaging, blockchain could provide different approaches, including smart contracts, machine learning algorithms, and the secure dissemination of large files among key stakeholders such as patients, healthcare providers, and institutions. This manuscript aims to explore the current attitudes and perspectives of trainees and radiologists to the utilization of blockchain technology and smart contracts in clinical radiology. Additionally, the study provides an in-depth analysis of the potential applications for incorporating blockchain into radiology. After obtaining The George Washington University Committee on Human Research Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, we conducted a 10-question survey among radiologists and trainees at several institutions and private practices. Surveys were created via the Google Forms application and were emailed to potential participants. Participants were asked about their current academic level (medical student, resident/fellow, academic radiologist, private practice radiologist, others), their knowledge level about the field of imaging informatics and blockchain and smart contract technologies, their level of interest in learning more about blockchain and smart contracts, and their opinion about possible applications of blockchain and smart contract in the future of medical imaging. A total of 118 survey requests were distributed; 83 were returned, reflecting a 70.3% overall response rate. Of these, 19 were sent to private practices with a 15.8% response rate (3/19), and 99 to academic centers, yielding an 80.8% response rate (80/99). The survey respondents demonstrated a strong interest and need to further understand these technologies among radiologists and trainees. This study focuses on key components of this technology as it relatesto healthcare and the practice of radiology, including data storage, patient care, securecommunication, and automation, as well as strengths, weaknesses,opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate and establish a baseline for the current perspectives on the application of blockchain technology and smart contracts in clinical radiologyamongst trainees and radiologists across academic and private settings. Incorporating blockchain and smart contracts technologies into the field of radiology has the potential to achieve greater efficiency, security, and patient empowerment. However, the adoption of this technology comes with challenges, such as infrastructure, interoperability, scalability, and regulatory compliance. Collaboration between radiologists, hospital administration, policymakers, technology developers, and patient advocacy organizations will help guide andadvance our understanding of the potential applications of blockchain and smart contracts in radiology and healthcare.

Seizing the Alterity of Futures

Abstract This article contextualizes growing interest in futurity and minoritarian futures as connected to movements in speculative fiction, particularly Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism, and the ways in which this genre reimagines both history and futures. These developments are read through two groundbreaking anthologies—Dark Matter, a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds, a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against the notion of progress in history, the article posits the shared grounds for a philosophy of history that disrupts the singular future of speculation-driven capitalism with alternative forms of speculative imagination.

Clinical Evaluation of Deep Learning-Based Auto-Segmentation toward MRI-Only Prostate Radiotherapy.

Due to its superior soft-tissue contrast, MRI is the imaging modality of choice for target and organs-at-risk delineation in prostate radiotherapy. A recent advanced MR scanner allows for an MRI-only workflow owing to its ability to generate synthetic CT (MRCAT) that enables accurate dose calculation and treatment planning. While auto-segmentation algorithms for CT images are increasingly being adopted in clinical practice, there are fewer such algorithms for MRI images. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a deep learning-based auto-segmentation tool (from MVision AI) for both MRI and MRCAT images. We hypothesize that such algorithms could produce accurate contours that require little manual editing, resulting in significant time saving and workflow efficiency in MRI-only treatment planning. T2 MRI and MRCAT image pairs (acquired on a Philips Ingenia 1.5T MRI Scanner) for 10 prostate patients treated in an MRI-only workflow at our institution were retrospectively collected with IRB approval. These image volumes were then segmented using deep learning-based auto-segmentation models trained for MRI and CT images, respectively. The structures were manually edited by an experienced physician in a commercial imaging informatics system (Velocity). Finally, the auto-segmented and the post-edit structures were compared using Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) and 95% Hausdorff Distance (HD95). Excellent agreement was found between the auto-segmented and post-edit structures. For MRCAT, the average DSC was 0.92±0.03, 0.99±0.00, 0.90±0.06, 0.89±0.07, 0.89±0.06, 0.95±0.04, and 0.96±0.03 for prostate, bladder, rectum, penile bulb, seminal vesicles, left femur, and right femur, respectively. The average HD95 for these structures were 0.65±0.51mm, 0.01±0.01mm, 2.07±1.68mm, 1.10±0.91mm, 1.67±1.81mm, 0.86±1.24mm, and 0.67±1.49mm, respectively. For MRI, the average DSC was 0.96±0.02, 0.99 ±0.00, 0.96±0.03, 0.87±0.03, 0.94±0.06, and 0.89±0.11 for prostate, bladder, rectum, penile bulb, seminal vesicles, and Barrigel spacer, respectively. The average HD95 was 0.25±0.21mm, 0.00±0.00mm, 1.60±1.87mm, 1.43±0.98mm, 0.50±0.86mm, and 1.56±2.26mm, respectively. We evaluated the clinical acceptability of deep learning-based auto-segmentation models for prostate radiotherapy, one for MRI and one for MRCAT delineation. Both models demonstrated superior accuracy, and a high degree of consistency, offering the potential for significant time saving in treatment planning and improved workflow efficiency.

Research hotspots and trends on sports medicine of athletes: A scientometric analysis from 2003 to 2023.

This study aims to demonstrate current research priorities and predict future trends of sports medicine of athletes by scientometric analysis. We collected nearly 20 years (2003 to 2023) of publications related to Sports medicine of athletes in the Web of Science database, Citespace was applied to evaluate the knowledge mapping. There are 4820 manuscripts about post-cesarean section in total, and faster growth after 2018. The country, institution, and author posted the most are the USA, Harvard University, and Engebretsen, Lars. Brit J Sport Med publishes the most articles of this type. In addition, the most key cited reference is Hopkins WG (2009). Sports medicine of athletes research, including blood, biomedical imaging informatics, and activity monitor has been a research hotspots in recent years. Through scientometric analysis of the past 20 years, we know the blood, biomedical imaging informatics, and activity monitor is the focus of future research. The USA, Australia, and England have become the main research forces in this field with high publication rates and centrality. This is important for accurately and quickly locating trends in this field.

Research on application of radiomics in glioma: a bibliometric and visual analysis.

With the continuous development of medical imaging informatics technology, radiomics has become a new and evolving field in medical applications. Radiomics aims to be an aid to support clinical decision making by extracting quantitative features from medical images and has a very wide range of applications. The purpose of this study was to perform a bibliometric and visual analysis of scientific results and research trends in the research application of radiomics in glioma. We searched the Web of Science Core Collection (WOScc) for publications related to glioma radiomics. A bibliometric and visual analysis of online publications in this field related to countries/regions, authors, journals, references and keywords was performed using CiteSpace and R software. A total of 587 relevant literature published from 2012 to September 2022 were retrieved in WOScc, and finally a total of 484 publications were obtained according to the filtering criteria, including 393 (81.20%) articles and 91 (18.80%) reviews. The number of relevant publications increases year by year. The highest number of publications was from the USA (171 articles, 35.33%) and China (170 articles, 35.12%). The research institution with the highest number of publications was Chinese Acad Sci (24), followed by Univ Penn (22) and Fudan Univ (21). WANG Y (27) had the most publications, followed by LI Y (22), and WANG J (20). Among the 555 co-cited authors, LOUIS DN (207) and KICKINGEREDER P (207) were the most cited authors. FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY (42) was the most published journal and NEURO-ONCOLOGY (412) was the most co-cited journal. The most frequent keywords in all publications included glioblastoma (187), survival (136), classification (131), magnetic resonance imaging (113), machine learning (100), tumor (82), and feature (79), central nervous system (66), IDH (57), and radiomics (55). Cluster analysis was performed on the basis of keyword co-occurrence, and a total of 16 clusters were formed, indicating that these directions are the current hotspots of radiomics research applications in glioma and may be the future directions of continuous development. In the past decade, radiomics has received much attention in the medical field and has been widely used in clinical research applications. Cooperation and communication between countries/regions need to be enhanced in future research to promote the development of radiomics in the field of medicine. In addition, the application of radiomics has improved the accuracy of pre-treatment diagnosis, efficacy prediction and prognosis assessment of glioma and helped to promote the development into precision medicine, the future still faces many challenges.

Towards a History of the Eccentric Artist: Beethoven’s Bad Manners and the Lure of the Anecdote

ABSTRACT Since the late nineteenth century, Beethoven’s bad manners have been framed as a political act of resistance against the stilted affect of the nobility. Yet this posthumous view does not fully account for how Beethoven’s contemporaries understood his (mis)behaviour. This article situates reactions to Beethoven’s bad manners that originated during his lifetime, alongside anecdotes published shortly after his death, to show how the eccentric artist persona interfaced with a history of etiquette. The very act of noticing behavioural minutiae took part in a celebrity culture poised on the cusp of novelty and conformity, entertainment and moral instruction. In a period dominated by conduct books, Beethoven’s friends sought to reconcile his gaffes with sensibility and (mannered) naturalness, reframing him as an ideal bourgeois subject. The case of Beethoven not only sheds light on the formation of the eccentric artist, but on the lure of the anecdote as an imaginative form of re-enactment.

Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology

Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology

Compliance of modern laws of Ukraine with international legal values: slogan or reality

The article analyzes international legal sources: the UN Charter, Declarations on the principles of international law, friendly relations and cooperation between states in accordance with the UN Charter, the Statute of the Council of Europe, the Lisbon Agreement in the context of the reality of the system of universally recognized values recorded in them, as well as sources the rights of Ukraine: the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine, the Constitution of Ukraine, codes and other laws of Ukraine regarding the state (which is stable) of the implementation of universally recognized values into the laws of Ukraine; the problems of their implementation in modern conditions are identified and possible ways of their solution are proposed The purpose of the article is to reveal the realities of the system of universally recognized values fixed in international legal documents and the state of their implementation in the laws of Ukraine; to propose ways of transforming such a system of values in order to ensure their effectiveness in the laws of Ukraine and compliance with modern requirements. There are significant violations of the principles of international law, which embody universally recognized values; inadequate response of the international community to such violations; replacement of legal means by other means («political will», agreements, negotiations, «expression of concern», etc.). This turns the prescriptions of international documents into declarative provisions (declaration of ideas, opinions, statements), and the system of international legal values into a «catalogue of wishes» or slogans, since there is no system of legal means and a mechanism for their implementation. The system of universally recognized values enshrined in the sources of international law was based on the idea of coexistence and cooperation of states and was really effective until the end of the 20th century. In connection with modern changes, it is important to form a new conceptual vision of international organizations, their role, significance, form and place in the new world order; creation of an effective institutional and functional mechanism for solving global problems; revision and updating of the system of generally recognized values regarding the interaction of member states within international organizations, as well as their external interaction. The existing system of universally recognized values should be transformed into a system of legal ideas, which are fixed in the basic principles of international law, and their violation should be interpreted as illegal actions. The mechanism for ensuring them should consist exclusively of effective legal means that cause direct (and not conditional) legal responsibility for their violation. All this will make it possible to form new international and legal forms of interaction between the participating states, which will be able to effectively respond to globalization changes and provide appropriate conditions for the further development of humanity. Key words: international law, principles of international law, universally recognized values, laws of Ukraine.

Pattern analysis for the diagnosis of inflammatory skin lesions in domestic animals: An overview.

Pattern analysis of inflammatory skin diseases is a technique that offers a systematic approach to the histologic diagnosis of skin diseases. First introduced to human dermatopathology in the 1970s, it was widely adopted by veterinary pathologists for the histologic diagnosis of skin diseases in animals. As the inflammatory pattern reflects, to varying extents, aspects of the underlying disease pathogenesis, its use has contributed to the recognition of novel skin diseases in domestic animals, particularly in dogs and cats. Alternative diagnostic approaches used in human dermatopathology, such as "tissue-reaction pattern" and a purely "anatomic approach" have not been as widely used in veterinary pathology. However, veterinary pathologists often combine pattern analysis with anatomic and etiologic factors. This overview outlines the technique, introduces the patterns, and discusses advantages and limitations of pattern analysis in veterinary diagnostic dermatopathology. While molecular analytic techniques and image informatics will undoubtedly prove to be revolutionary in many areas of diagnostic pathology, it is recognized in both human and veterinary arenas that the light microscopic interpretation of hematoxylin and eosin-stained tissue sections will remain the mainstay of routine dermatopathology diagnosis for the foreseeable future.

Praying in the pandemic, and after

What is everyday life like under a militarized pandemic where the brute force of the state is deployed to contain an outbreak? What lifeworld is generated against the backdrop of authoritarian control? What holds us together when our lives are quarantined? I will answer these questions by looking at the practice of mass listening. In particular, I look at a recorded prayer to provide a picture of an island life. In this essay, I call attention to what may be termed the vernacular will to life in a carceral regime in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the oratio imperata as a case study, I think more broadly about the meaning of freedom, restraint, and contingency. Namely, I describe the lifeforce buried in everyday acts of praying wherein repressive social forces, be they the police or religious authorities, come to enable world-making possibilities for ordinary lives in paradoxical ways. I argue that the recorded prayer helps us to grasp the dynamics of repression and agency. Using memoir and ethnography, I propose the theory of vernacular biopoetics to explore the possibility of freedom in a carceral condition wherein the constriction of spaces becomes an opening for alternative forms of imagination.

DB-TASNet for disease diagnosis and lesion segmentation in medical images

Deep learning algorithms have been successfully used in the field of medical image analysis and have greatly improved application of intelligent algorithms to medical diagnosis. However, existing deep-learning-based diagnostic methods still suffer from several drawbacks: (1) In most medical image multi-tasking methods, focus segmentation and disease classification are often performed linearly, resulting in excessive reliance on the final results of focus segmentation. (2) The computational cost of the traditional attention mechanism for performing the segmentation task is very high and the convolutional architecture cannot be used to model long-distance dependencies, which in turn affects the segmentation accuracy. To address these issues, we propose a disease diagnosis and lesion segmentation model, Dual-Branch with Transformer Axial-attention Segmentation Net (DB-TASNet). DB-TASNet is built by the DenseNet-121 classification network and U-Net segmentation network improved using an axial-attention transformer model. Moreover, DB-TASNet also includes a lesion integration module to integrate segmentation results with the classification network in order to increase its attention to lesions and improve the diagnosis results. Experimental results on the Pneumothorax dataset provided by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) show that the average AUC of the DB-TASNet classification task reaches 0.939, and the DICE coefficient of the segmentation task reaches 0.886. Such performance suggests that the proposed model may provide an efficient and effective diagnosis tool for medical personnel.

Futurity, the life course and aging in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

Abstract Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) in this article, we bring the perspectives of aging and posthumanist studies together to explore how the novel helps us to rethink our being and relationality in time beyond the boundaries of the human. In particular, we are interested in the novel’s critique of the anthropocentric privileging of youth and progress in the ways in which we imagine the future. Central to this form of imagination are generational continuity and the symbolism of the child: a new generation as a promise of the future, or rather, a better human future. Nevertheless, this novel does not simply employ the trope of generational futurity; instead, it interrogates and draws attention to the exclusionary way this type of thinking functions. Through its blurring of human and AI “child”, ultimately, Klara and the Sun suggests the dangers and the limits of a generational imagination that seeks to reproduce the same, progressive narrative of the future through the image of the child not “growing up and growing old” (Woodward 2020: 55; italics in original). Our analysis then suggests how fictional speculative modes might both engage with and yet also force us to reflect critically upon that form of future-orientated thinking.

The Interpretation of Husserl’s Time-Consciousness in the Reconstruction of the Concept of Anthropic Time. Part One

The purpose of the article is to comprehend the Husserlian model of constituting temporal modes through the ability of intentional "retentional-protentional" consciousness, as well as to clarify the possibility of interpreting its positions in the reconstruction of the concept of anthropic time. Theoretical basis. The theoretical framework of the research includes: 1) the interpretation of the phenomenological reflection of "time-consciousness" by E. Husserl in the context of solving the problem of phased-differentiation of this form of temporality; 2) the concept of anthropic time (V. Khanzhy). Originality. For the first time in research literature, the possibilities of applying the ideas of Husserl to the reconstruction of the concept of anthropic time are considered through the interpretation of the phenomenological solution to the problem of temporality, proposed and specified in Husserl’s "time-consciousness" concept. Conclusions. The comprehension of the Husserlian model of intentionality of consciousness through the "grasping-from-now" and the constitution of phases of phenomenological time through the component of "exiting-from-now" showed that solving the problem of phased-differentiation of phenomenological time leads to the observation of the impossibility of isolating the modes of past, present, and future as self-sufficient and unconditional. More accurate indications, based on the constitutive intentionality of consciousness on the "grasping-from-now" phases of time (as conventional), are as follows: a) the abilities of retention and recollection are the foundation for the constitution of the past and its connections to the present; b) the perception establishes the basis for the phase of the present itself; c) the possibilities of protention and anticipation (as forms of imagination) constitute the future and its connections to the present. By the concept of retention, Husserl fixes a certain primary memory (the present "now" of a past interval), which enables retaining the past in the present. The category of recollection or secondary memory is used by the philosopher to refer to the self-sufficient reproduction of past experiences (without being joined to present perception). The fundamental difference between recollection and retention is that the former re-presents a temporal interval, grasping its content and reproducing it as it was in the past, while in the latter, the perceived duration is presented as a fragment of time that has just passed. According to the German philosopher, the "grasping" of the present phase is performed by perception. Through the constitutive intentionality of consciousness, perception synthesizes the results of primary-actual activity and retentional holding of duration. The second part of the article will present solutions to the following research tasks: 1) analysis of the possibilities of protention and anticipation in constituting the future and its connections with the present; 2) understanding the possibility of using interpreted forms of Husser’s ideas in reconstructing the concept of anthropic time.

WORLDVIEW, THINKING AND HISTORY

The goal of this article is to find out the influence of worldview on thinking and historical writing. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the author's idealistic approach. The article shows the influence of worldview on the process of thinking and creating an image of the past. The role of ideas in the process of perception of the external world, the formation of experience and imagination is determined. The dependence of the way of thinking on the dominant worldview in the mind of the historian is substantiated. The possibility and conditions for understanding the thinking and logic of people of a certain historical era are revealed. The characteristics of the ways of thinking in different worldview eras are given. The influence of the worldview on the historical actions of people is clarified, and the concept of subjective-objective reality is substantiated. In conclusion, the author concludes that the way of thinking and its logic are determined by the dominant worldview. The worldview and the corresponding way of thinking determine the historical activity of a person, therefore the main task of the historian in creating an image of the past is to understand what ideas underlay historical action.

The Collaboration Between Space Form and Islamic Cultural Rituals on the Cultural Landscape Pattern of Cirebon City

There is a collaboration between spatial forms and Islamic (Javanese) cultural rituals in Cirebon city, which has the potential to shape the uniqueness of the cultural landscape. The research object is the Kanoman Sultanate which conducts the annual ritual, 'M(a)uludan' tradition. The aim is to describe the collaboration between the physical forms of the Keraton Kanoman and the M (a)uludan Tradition, which is the Islamic or Javanese culture. This involved using the qualitative description method through cultural participation for a period of 8 years. The results showed the existence of an imaginary space formation strung together by the presence of residents from 31 villages as followers (wargi) of the Keraton Kanoman. Moreover, the spatial form of the ritual route was discovered to have been formed for several generations. The people strongly believe that the presence and involvement of these routes can bring them virtue, blessings, prosperity, as well as protection from misfortune. This research argues that the imaginary space forms were created by these cultural events.

Lessons Learned in Change Management in Deploying Novel Informatics Solutions: Experience Implementing a Point-of-Care Patient Photography System with Radiography

We describe implementation of a point-of-care system for simultaneous acquisition of patient photographs along with portable radiographs at a large academic hospital. During the implementation process, we observed several technical challenges in the areas of (1) hardware—automatic triggering for photograph acquisition, camera hardware enclosure, networking, and system server hardware and (2) software—post-processing of photographs. Additionally, we also faced cultural challenges involving workflow issues, communication with technologists and users, and system maintenance. We describe our solutions to address these challenges. We anticipate that these experiences will provide useful insights into deploying and iterating new technologies in imaging informatics.

FORMATION OF SPATIAL IMAGINATION IN THE FUTURE MECHANICAL DESIGNERS

The events of the last year have even more clearly highlighted the problems and priorities in higher education, where during the last few decades the number of students who wanted to study in engineering specialties has decreased, and the attractiveness of engineering education in general has decreased. Modern industrial enterprises, Ukrainian agricultural engineering, medical equipment, modern Ukrainian army urgently require a significant number of engineering specialists, in particular, mechanics who could create, improve and repair modern, as a rule, rather complex equipment. Among the basic knowledge of future mechanical bachelors it is necessary to single out the presence of spatial imagination and spatial thinking, which allow creating new mechanical systems by producing new technical documentation in the form of assembly and working drawings. In the process of creating new objects, the designer solves two main tasks: the first is the formation of an imaginary spatial object based on flat drawings, the second is the production of flat drawings based on an imaginary three-dimensional object. This work is devoted to the consideration and analysis of the process of formation of spatial imagination and spatial thinking in the process of obtaining an engineering education by a student at the university. In particular, the disciplines provided by the curriculum, which help to develop spatial imagination and spatial thinking, are highlighted, and relevant tasks in the process of their complication are considered. It is proposed to stage the process of forming spatial imagination among students, in particular, it is necessary to determine the levels of mastery of spatial imagination and spatial thinking, which, together with the assessment of knowledge, skills and abilities from other general engineering and special subjects, will help form an opinion about the suitability of the future bachelor of mechanics to the creative profession of creating new technical systems.