During two stimulating breakout sessions (see the schedule) the state of existing software tools (for feature extraction, data integration, pattern recognition, analysis and interpretation, presentation, etc.) for various physical and physiological measurements, including biomedical imaging, and molecular (genomic) profiling will be discussed. The panel shall discuss relevant issues and will make recommendations for future directions with respect to clinical decision-making. During the first session the panel will focus on recommendations for short-term objectives including requirements for open source software tools, demonstration projects to guide future planning and research, Meta -data-middleware-ontologies that are standard based. The status of modeling methods and how to integrate these methods for improved data interpretation and clinical decision-making will be discussed and recommendations will be made. During the second day session the panel will focus on providing recommendations for long-term goals such as how to involve leading modeling and software experts from academia and the device and informatics industry in both the development and the translation of the infrastructure for software methods to clinical applications. [See NIH road map - Research teams of the Future].

Moderator:	James Bassingthwaighte, Ph.D. University of Washington
Panelists:	Narendra Ahuja, Ph.D. University of Illinois Chris Johnson, Ph.D. University of Utah Wayne Kubick, M.B.A. Lincoln Technologies, Inc. and CDISC Cherri Pancake, Ph.D. Oregon State University Fernando Pereira, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Stephen Rosenfeld, M.D. NIH Clinical Center
Plenary Speaker Representatives:	Ricardo Avila, M.S. GE Global Research Center
NIH Coordinators:	Mike Marron, Ph.D. National Center for Research Resources Terry Yoo, Ph.D. National Library of Medicine Reza Momenan, Ph.D. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism