A tool for collection of region based data from uterine cervix images for correlation of visual and clinical variables related to cervical neoplasia

Author

Jeronimo, Jose ; Schiffman, Mark

Author_Institution

Nat. Cancer Inst., Nat. Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

24-25 June 2004

Firstpage

558

Lastpage

562

Abstract

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is collaborating with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to create a database of digitized images of the uterine cervix for research, training, and education. The database of 100,000 images collected in NCI projects will be Web-accessible and will contain not only the digitized images, but also clinical, longitudinal data relevant to the detection of uterine cervix cancer. The database will also contain spatial data in the form of expert-marked boundary regions of anatomy and tissue regions of high interest. The collection of this spatial data is enabled by customized software, the Boundary Marking Tool (BMT). The BMT, its significance, and its use in preliminary research studies, are described in this paper.

Keywords

Internet; PACS; cancer; database management systems; gynaecology; medical expert systems; medical image processing; Boundary Marking Tool; Web-accessible; cervical neoplasia; clinical variables; digitized images database; expert-marked boundary regions; spatial data; uterine cervix; visual variables; Anatomy; Biomedical imaging; Cancer detection; Cervical cancer; Collaboration; Image databases; Libraries; Neoplasms; Spatial databases; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2004. CBMS 2004. Proceedings. 17th IEEE Symposium on

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2104-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2004.1311774

Filename

1311774