MRIdb: medical image management for biobank research.

abstract：:Multimodality medical image fusion plays a vital role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up studies of various diseases. It provides a composite image containing critical information of source images required for better localization and definition of different organs and lesions. In the state-of-the-art imag...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Ganasala P,Kumar V

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The residency review committee of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) collects data on resident exam volume and sets minimum requirements. However, this data is not made readily available, and the ACGME does not share their tools or methodology. It is therefore difficult to assess the integ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Chen PH,Loehfelm TW,Kamer AP,Lemmon AB,Cook TS,Kohli MD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prior ultrasound study indicated that images with low to moderate levels of JPEG and wavelet compression were acceptable for diagnostic purposes. The purpose of this study is to validate this prior finding using the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) baseline compression algorithm, at a compression ratio of app...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Persons KR,Hangiandreou NJ,Charboneau NT,Charboneau J,James E,Douglas BR,Salmon AP,Knudsen JM,Erickson BJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiology studies are inherently visual and the information contained within is best conveyed by visual methodology. Advanced reporting software allows the incorporation of annotated key images into text reports, but such features may be less effective compared with in-person consultations. The use of web technology a...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Balkman JD,Siegel AH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic medical centers, in general, and radiation oncology research, in particular, rely heavily on custom software tools and applications. The code development is typically the responsibility of a single individual or at most a small team. Often these individuals are not professional programmers but physicists, stu...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Gersten DB,Langer SG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While occupational stress and fatigue have been well described throughout medicine, the radiology community is particularly susceptible due to declining reimbursements, heightened demands for service deliverables, and increasing exam volume and complexity. The resulting occupational stress can be variable in nature an...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Reiner BI

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tracked a radiology department's conversion from utilization of a Kodak Amber analog system to a Kodak DirectView DR 5100 digital system. Through the use of ProModel Optimization Suite, a workflow simulation software package, significant quantitative information was derived from workflow process data measur...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Wideman C,Gallet J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export (TCE) integration profile describes a standard workflow for exporting key images from an image manager/archive to a teaching file, clinical trial, or electronic publication application. Two specific digital imaging and communicatio...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kamauu AW,DuVall SL,Liimatta AP,Wiggins RH 3rd,Avrin DE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve radiology access to full uncompressed Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) data sets, we evaluated satellite access to a DICOM server. Radiologists' home computers were connected by satellite to a Medweb DICOM server (Medweb, San Francisco, CA). A 10.2-kb data set containing a 19-image hea...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Ernst RD,Kawashima A,Shepherd W,Tamm EP,Sandler CM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing challenge of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems is the definition of a suitable distance function to measure the similarity between images in an application context which complies with the human perception of similarity. In this paper, we present a new family of distance functions, called att...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Felipe JC,Traina C Jr,Traina AJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Web educational resources integrating interactive simulation tools provide students with an in-depth understanding of the medical imaging process. The aim of this work was the development of a purely Web-based, open access, interactive application, as an ancillary learning tool in graduate and postgraduate medical ima...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Papamichail D,Pantelis E,Papagiannis P,Karaiskos P,Georgiou E

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is difficult to detect sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) around an injection point of radiopharmaceuticals mapped in lymphoscintigrams. The purpose of this study was to develop a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme for SLNs by a subtraction technique using the symmetrical property in the mapped injection point. Our dat...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Nakayama R,Hizukuri A,Yamamoto K,Nakako N,Nagasawa N,Takeda K

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a region-wide teleradiology network in Germany a vendor-independent Uptime-server concept was defined. The Uptime-server was realized for the availability check and prospective error-detection of the emergency teleradiology servers and clients based on encrypted digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Weisser G,Ruggiero S,Runa A,Düber C,Neff W,Walz M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Validation of medical signal and image processing systems requires quality-assured, representative and generally acknowledged databases accompanied by appropriate reference (ground truth) and clinical metadata, which are composed laboriously for each project and are not shared with the scientific community. In our vis...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Deserno TM,Welter P,Horsch A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a computerized method of calculating a breast density index (BDI) from digitized mammograms that was designed specifically to model radiologists' perception of breast density. A set of 153 pairs of digitized mammograms (cranio-caudal, CC, and mediolateral oblique, ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Boone JM,Lindfors KK,Beatty CS,Seibert JA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring patients' imaging-related radiation is currently a hot topic, but there are many obstacles to accurate, patient-specific dose estimation. While some, such as easier access to dose data and parameters, have been overcome, the challenge remains as to how accurately these dose estimates reflect the actual dose...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Cook TS,Couch G,Couch TJ,Kim W,Boonn WW

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opinion surveys were gathered before and 6 months after installation of a prototype picture archiving and communication system (PACS) (PACS/1, Siemens Medical Systems, Iselin, NJ). Median turnaround times and the percent of delayed or missing reports were calculated for 1,026 baseline and 8,438 follow-up studies at 6 ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Worrell JA,Federspiel CF,Creasy JL,Pickens DR 3rd,Higginbotham K,Patton JA,Partain CL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a relatively new imaging modality in the functional neuroimaging research arena. The fNIRS modality non-invasively investigates the change of blood oxygenation level in the human brain utilizing the transillumination technique. In the last two decades, the interest in t...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Rahman MA,Siddik AB,Ghosh TK,Khanam F,Ahmad M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed radiography (CR) has various advantages such as dynamic range. Diagnostic accuracy with CR using reduced radiation dose is considered comparable with that of conventional film-screen radiography in diagnosing apparent chest abnormalities. In addition to reducing the radiation dose, delineation of the various ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Aoki K

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though facilities using computed radiography (CR) operate in an electronic environment, the production of hard-copy films is still necessary during the transition period, as well as for particular needs following complete implementation. We have implemented a quantitative technique to match the response of printe...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Hildestad CA,Morin RL

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate stereoscopic perception of low-dose breast tomosynthesis projection images. In this Institutional Review Board exempt study, craniocaudal breast tomosynthesis cases (N = 47), consisting of 23 biopsy-proven malignant mass cases and 24 normal cases, were retrospectively reviewed...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Muralidhar GS,Markey MK,Bovik AC,Haygood TM,Stephens TW,Geiser WR,Garg N,Adrada BE,Dogan BE,Carkaci S,Khisty R,Whitman GJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes an application for capturing, delivering, and tracking urgent radiology exam results. Urgent exam findings are entered using a Web form embedded within the Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) display station. The findings are then accessible via soft copy using the PACS display sta...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Tellis WM,Andriole KP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive cephalocaudal anatomic (Z-axis) coverage can lead to unnecessary radiation exposure to a patient. In this study, an automated computing model was developed for identifying instances of potentially excessive Z-axis coverage with abdomen-pelvis examinations. Eight patient and imaging attributes including patie...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Zhang M,Wellnitz C,Cui C,Pavlicek W,Wu T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy diagnosed in women. Through early detection and diagnosis, there is a great chance of recovery and thereby reduce the mortality rate. Many preliminary tests like non-invasive radiological diagnosis using ultrasound, mammography, and MRI are widely used for the diagno...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Das A,Nair MS,Peter SD

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of global mortality, yet its early detection remains a vexing problem of modern medicine. Although the computed tomography (CT) calcium score predicts cardiovascular risk, relatively high cost ($250-400) and radiation dose (1-3 mSv) limit its universal utility as a screening...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mafi JN,Fei B,Roble S,Dota A,Katrapati P,Bezerra HG,Wang H,Wang W,Ciancibello L,Costa M,Simon DI,Orringer CE,Gilkeson RC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to assess the accuracy, precision, and rapidity of liver volumes calculated by using a freehand electromagnetic pen tablet contourtracing method as compared with the volumes calculated by using the standard optical mouse contourtracing method. The imaging data used as input for accuracy an...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Perandini S,Faccioli N,Inama M,Pozzi Mucelli R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate whether an offsite expert could effectively evaluate visually estimated ejection fraction (EF) while watching and guiding the echocardiographic procedure of an onsite novice practitioner using a social network video call. Sixty patients presenting to the intensive care unit and requiring echoca...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kim C,Hur J,Kang BS,Choi HJ,Shin JH,Kim TH,Chung JH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of artifact images, obtained over 5 years of performance testing, of both computed radiography (CR) and integrated digital radiographic X-ray imaging detectors are presented. The images presented are all either flat field or test object images and show artifacts previously either undescribed in the existing l...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Honey ID,Mackenzie A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognizability of facial images extracted from publically available medical scans raises patient privacy concerns. This study examined how accurately facial images extracted from computed tomography (CT) scans are objectively matched with corresponding photographs of the scanned individuals. The test subjects wer...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Parks CL,Monson KL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scheduling of CT and MR exams requires reasonable estimates for expected scan duration. However, scan-time variability and efficiency gains from combining multiple exams are not quantitatively well characterized. In this work, we developed an informatics approach to quantify typical duration, duration variability, and...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Zhang R,Narra VR,Kansagra AP

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00