Use of Medical Imaging to Advance Mental Health Care: Contributions from Neuroimaging Informatics

Although medical imaging is not routinely deployed in the day-to-day structure of mental health care delivery, physicians and other healthcare providers are at a tipping point where such objective, quantitative physiological assessments are likely to become ever more important in the future. Such a development would generate new, actionable knowledge and information, at both an individual person and population public health levels. Mental health informatics could expand to encompass the acquisition of structured imaging data to augment other widely available data types.