Design and implementation of remote medical image reading and diagnosis system based on cloud services

A remote medical image reading and diagnosis system based on cloud services is designed and implemented in this paper, using the WEB browser and DICOM WEB server with Web Access to DICOM Persistent Objects for data exchange. Infrastructure, platform, and software are provided as services through Internet, which is the main concept of cloud services. Based on cloud services, the system is capable of providing services of remote medical image reading and diagnosis via Internet. Depending on different requests sent by the browser, the server processes the image accordingly with powerful image processing ability, then the results are sent back to the browser page for display without having to install plug-ins. The system has good scalability. Medical image reading and diagnosis tools can be developed to meet the needs of professional medical diagnosis for doctors. In the future, cloud services of traditional PACS can be provided after the system grow mature and develop patient register module, diagnostic report module, etc.