Early this spring, a landmark summit in Philadelphia, PA, USA, brought a distinguished group of medical experts from around the world together to address how recent advances in healthcare are transforming diagnostics, imaging, and informatics to create more precise diagnostic tools – a trend that could lead to increasingly personalized medicine.

Journalist Haig Simonian recently met with Heinz-Otto Peitgen, an internationally respected authority on applied mathematics and visualization software, in Vienna, Austria, for Medical Solutions to talk about his newest ventures, including projects aimed at finding new and better ways to diagnose and treat breast cancer.

By Haig Simonian