Customized medical image databases: a low-cost approach

✍ Scribed by J.N. Stahl; B. Kramann

• Book ID: 104350620
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 692 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-6111
• DOI: 10.1016/s0895-6111(97)00037-2

✦ Synopsis

The increasing use of digital images in medicine creates a demand for efficient but simple methods to store, retrieve and display images. The ideal solution for this might be a large-scale hospital-integrated picture archiving and communication systems, but this is not applicable under all conditions. A small-scale, user-defined image database running on a desktop computer may fit the individual needs better, while yielding optimal costeffectiveness. We will present a way to create customized image databases using a general-purpose desktop database system and a specialized, dedicated image handling component programmed in C++.