Design methods and architectural issues of integrated medical image data base systems. Export

@article{citeulike:3924556, abstract = {The past 20 years have seen tremendous changes in medical imaging techniques. New modalities and protocols are expanding the available digital image data at a rapid rate. Yet a framework for gathering, managing, and using multimodal image information is an integrated database environment is missing. The purpose of this paper is to present the experience of implementing an integrated medical image database system at UCSF. We discuss the general system architecture, software design methods, and specific database tools and illustrate them with application examples. Two immediate issues conforming the building of medical image database systems are: lack of supporting infrastructure and inability to index images by contest. To circumvent these problems, the evolutionary medical image database system being implemented at UCSF is based on a three-tiered client-server architecture: client medical workstations, database application servers, and a hospital-integrated picture archiving and communication system (HIP-PACS). The approach used to integrate content-based retrieval and knowledge base techniques within the existing HI-PACS to make the whole database system useful in medicine.}, author = {Wong, S. T. and Huang, H. K.}, citeulike-article-id = {3924556}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8954235}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=8954235}, issn = {0895-6111}, journal = {Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society}, keywords = {database, medical\_images, pacs}, number = {4}, pages = {285--299}, posted-at = {2009-01-22 17:17:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Design methods and architectural issues of integrated medical image data base systems.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8954235}, volume = {20}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3924556 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3924556 N2 - The past 20 years have seen tremendous changes in medical imaging techniques. New modalities and protocols are expanding the available digital image data at a rapid rate. Yet a framework for gathering, managing, and using multimodal image information is an integrated database environment is missing. The purpose of this paper is to present the experience of implementing an integrated medical image database system at UCSF. We discuss the general system architecture, software design methods, and specific database tools and illustrate them with application examples. Two immediate issues conforming the building of medical image database systems are: lack of supporting infrastructure and inability to index images by contest. To circumvent these problems, the evolutionary medical image database system being implemented at UCSF is based on a three-tiered client-server architecture: client medical workstations, database application servers, and a hospital-integrated picture archiving and communication system (HIP-PACS). The approach used to integrate content-based retrieval and knowledge base techniques within the existing HI-PACS to make the whole database system useful in medicine. IS - 4 JF - Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society SN - 0895-6111 EP - 299 TI - Design methods and architectural issues of integrated medical image data base systems. VL - 20 SP - 285 KW - database KW - medical_images KW - pacs AU - Wong, ST AU - Huang, HK PY - 1996///g UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8954235 ER -