Title :
Integration of multimodal medical imagery
Author :
Greenshields, I.R. ; Beshers, G. McA
Author_Institution :
Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA
Abstract :
An approach being undertaken to provide a language-based methodology for formalizing the manipulation of diagnostic imagery drawn from a number of distinct physical sources is described. It consists in essence of a vehicle for bridging the gap between the simple display and storage of such images and the eventual process of automated image understanding and expert-system-aided diagnostics. The use of a common abstracted data object based on a region topology is proposed, and the ramifications of such an approach are explored
Keywords :
computerised picture processing; data structures; medical administrative data processing; automated image understanding; common abstracted data object; diagnostic imagery; distinct physical sources; expert-system-aided diagnostics; language-based methodology; multimodal medical imagery; region topology; Biomedical imaging; Displays; Image processing; Image storage; Medical diagnostic imaging; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Pathology; Radiography; Radiology; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1988. Vol.IV. Applications Track., Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0844-7
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1988.11957
