A Contextual Medical Image Viewer

Author

Moreno, Ramon Alfredo ; Furuie, Sérgio Shiguemi

Author_Institution

Univ. of Sao Paulo Med. Sch., Sao Paulo

Volume

11

Issue

5

fYear

2007

Firstpage

583

Lastpage

592

Abstract

The conventional visualization of medical images is not enough for a rich and comprehensive electronic healthcare record. We believe that it is necessary to provide a viewer with more advanced capabilities than those of regular medical image viewers. In this paper, we propose an architecture that allows the use of contextual information to assist the healthcare professional in his regular tasks. The proposed architecture for the context is composed of an ontology describing the hospital and an inference engine. The result is a Java-based implementation of the architecture, named Dynamic N-dimensional Image Viewer, (ODIN in Portuguese) that is able to adapt its behavior according to the contextual information.

Keywords

data visualisation; medical image processing; medical information systems; contextual information; dynamic N-dimensional image viewer; electronic healthcare record; medical image viewer; medical image visualization; Biomedical imaging; Engines; Hospitals; Information technology; Java; Medical services; Ontologies; Personnel; Programming profession; Visualization; Architecture; context; medical images; visualization; Computer Graphics; Diagnostic Imaging; Expert Systems; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Radiology Information Systems; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7771

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TITB.2006.884373

Filename

4300842