Pictorial Information Systems in Medicine

✍ Scribed by Gwilym S. Lodwick M.D. (auth.), Karl Heinz Höhne (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 524
• Series: NATO ASI Series 19
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Pictorial Information Systems in Medicine" held August 27-September 7, 1984 in Hotel Maritim, Braunlage/Harz, Federal Republic of Germany. The program committee of the institute consisted of KH Hohne (Director), G. T Herman, G. S. Lodwick, and D. Meyer-Ebrecht. The organization was in the hands of Klaus Assmann and Fritz Bocker In the last decade medical imaging has undergone a rapid development New imaging modalities such as Computer Tomography (CT), Digital Angiography (DSA) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) were developed using the capabilities of modern computers. In a modern hospital these technologies produce already more then 25% of image data in digital form. This format lends itself to the design of computer assisted Information systems Integrating data acquisition, presentation, communi­ cation and archiving for all modalities and users within a department or even a hospital. Advantages such as rapid access to any archived Image, synoptic presentation, computer assisted image analysis to name only a few, are expected. The design of such pictorial information systems, however, often called PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) In the medical community is a non-trivial task involving know-how from many disciplines such as - Medicine (especially Radiology), - Data Base Technology, - Computer Graphics, - Man Machine Interaction, - Hardware Technology and others. Most of these disCiplines are represented by disjunct scientific communities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Issues in the design of human-computer interfaces....Pages 251-262
Programming Support for Data-Intensive Applications....Pages 263-292
Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems: Representation and use of Knowledge....Pages 293-332
Software Tools for the Development of Pictorial Information Systems in Medicine - The ISQL Experience -....Pages 333-356
Experience with a Prototype PACS System in a Clinical Environment....Pages 357-367
Pictorial Information Systems and Radiology Improving the Quality of Communications....Pages 1-27
Image Acquisition Devices and Their Application to Diagnostic Medicine....Pages 29-104
Integrated Hospital Information Systems....Pages 105-149
On the Architecture for Pictorial Information Systems....Pages 151-179
Three-Dimensional Computer Graphic Display in Medicine: The MIPG Perspective....Pages 181-210
Psychovisual Issues in the Display of Medical Images....Pages 211-233
Systems for 3D Display in Medical Imaging....Pages 235-249
Recent Developments in Digital Radiology....Pages 369-379
The Future of Digital Computers in Medical Imaging....Pages 381-389
Looking Back at PACS Attempts - What Has Happened Since PACS I....Pages 391-399
Design Considerations for Multi Modality Medical Image Workstations....Pages 401-420
Medical Work Stations in Radiology....Pages 421-431
The DIMI System Philosophy and State of Development....Pages 433-443
Interactive Display of 3D Medical Objects....Pages 445-457
Presentation and Perception of 3-D Images....Pages 459-468
Experiments with Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Ventriculograms using Automatic Contour Detection....Pages 469-484
Systematic use of Colour in Biomedical Data Display....Pages 485-496
3-D Model of Vertebra for Spinal Surgery....Pages 497-505
Correlation Between CT, NMR and PT Findings in the Brain....Pages 507-514
Digital Imaging for Planning of Radiation Therapy — Practical Considerations....Pages 515-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-527

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)