New Technologies in Medical Imaging: New Challenges in Picture Evaluation

The development of medical imaging equipments generates growing amount of pictorial data from the intern organs of the human body. On the other hand the automatically evaluation of the huge amount of pictures and videos is in the very beginning phase, which causes a high need for well trained personal. Over the high cost, the lack of sophisticated and reliable software for the support of the diagnostic task became the most important limitation of the use of the new technologies. In this paper we will introduce two relatively new technology: the use of miniaturized camera for internal examination of the gastrointestinal tract (capsule endoscopy), and the virtual colonoscopy. We will show that advanced visualization methods can support the hard task of the doctors, and the use of picture processing technologies makes the evaluation task more convenient.