IMAGENCIES: network image services for telemedicine applications

Author

Roberto, Vito ; Mea, Vincenzo Della

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Udine Univ., Italy

fYear

2001

Firstpage

501

Lastpage

506

Abstract

A network of distributed image-based medical services (Imagencies) is proposed. Each one is a community of specialised, co-operating programs (Imagents), providing acquisition, processing, archiving and management facilities. Both synchronous and asynchronous communication are proposed, based on the standard protocols available on the Internet. We describe a prototype implementation in the field of telepathology. At present, the Imagency includes a secretary and an image processing specialist; asynchronous communication is realised by the standard MIME protocol for multimedia electronic mail. Practical results and future perspectives are presented and discussed

Keywords

Internet; electronic mail; knowledge acquisition; medical expert systems; medical image processing; multi-agent systems; multimedia communication; protocols; telemedicine; Imagencies; Imagents; Internet; MIME protocol; acquisition; archiving; asynchronous communication; co-operating programs; distributed medical services; image processing specialist; management; multimedia electronic mail; network image services; secretary; synchronous communication; telemedicine; telepathology; Application software; Asynchronous communication; Biomedical imaging; Communication standards; Image processing; Medical services; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Prototypes; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Analysis and Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palermo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1183-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIAP.2001.957059

Filename

957059