Towards Portable Large-Scale Image Processing with High-Performance Computing.

abstract：:Recent healthcare policies have influenced the manner in which patient data is handled in research projects, and the regulations concerning protected health information have become significantly tighter. Thus, new procedures are needed to facilitate research while protecting the confidentiality of patient data and ens...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Rajala T,Savio S,Penttinen J,Dastidar P,Kähönen M,Eskola H,Miettunen R,Turjanmaa V,Järvenpää R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a set of worksheets to facilitate standardized comparisons among scheduling systems, hospital information systems, radiology information systems, and picture archiving and communication systems vendors. For each system category, we provide worksheets to evaluate the features, performance, installation req...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Langer S,Wang J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiology 2.0: One Night in the ED is an app that presents users with scrollable CT images for common scenarios found in any Emergency Department (ED). A great tool for a junior resident before starting call, it allows the user to build confidence by experiencing a simulated environment of viewing all images of a case...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Drexler IR

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous articles have offered instructions for working with advanced radiology images in Microsoft PowerPoint (Redmond, WA); however, no articles have detailed instructions to do the same on alternative presentation software. Apple Macintosh (Cupertino, CA) computers are gaining popularity with many radiologists, due...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Ghoshhajra BB,Techasith T,Choy G,Rojas CA,Pomerantz SR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we propose a new method for stitching multiple fluoroscopic images taken by a C-arm instrument. We employ an X-ray radiolucent ruler with numbered graduations while acquiring the images, and the image stitching is based on detecting and matching ruler parts in the images to the corresponding parts of a ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Chen C,Kojcev R,Haschtmann D,Fekete T,Nolte L,Zheng G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic imaging clinical implementation strategies and principles need to be developed as we move toward replacement of film-based radiology practices. During an 8-month period (1998 to 1999), an Electronic Imaging Clinical Implementation Work Group (EICIWG) was formed from sections of our department: Informatics L...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： King BF Jr,Erickson BJ,Williamson B Jr,Reading CC,James EM,Ramthun SK,Owen DA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rather than perpetuating the struggle, "who controls the PACS, Radiology or Information Technology (IT)," Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) took the approach of incorporating IT support within the Radiology Department. CHOMP faced the challenge of staffing Radiology computer systems and networks by ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： McDonald A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable debate within the medical community has focused on the optimal location of information technology (IT) support groups on the organizational chart. The challenge has been to marry local accountability and physician acceptance of IT with the benefits gained by the economies of scale achieved by centralized ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Channin DS,Bowers G,Nagy P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitatively investigate the influence of image registration, using open-source software (3DSlicer), on kinetic analysis (Tofts model) of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI of early-stage breast cancer patients. We also show that registration computation time can be reduced by reducing the percent sampling (PS) of vox...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mouawad M,Biernaski H,Brackstone M,Lock M,Kornecki A,Shmuilovich O,Ben-Nachum I,Prato FS,Thompson RT,Gaede S,Gelman N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors developed a temporal subtraction scheme based on a nonlinear geometric warping technique to assist radiologists in the detection of interval changes in chest radiographs obtained on different occasions. The performance of the current temporal subtraction scheme is reasonably good; however, severe misregist...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Ishida T,Ashizawa K,Engelmann R,Katsuragawa S,MacMahon H,Doi K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To illustrate the availability, effectiveness, and practical use of Open-Source tools in developing a radiology paper from its beginning to its presentation and publication. Practical use of a complete set of Open-Source applications for writing, e-mail corresponding, slide show, image retrieval, and manipulation is s...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Faccioli N,Perandini S,Barillari M,D'Onofrio M,Mucelli RP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-bit or 12-bit gray scale is provided in commercial laser film digitizers. The true contrast resolution on the digitized image within a laser spot area of 200 microns in diameter is limited by both the quantum mottle and instrumentation noise. In this report, we investigated the mean value, standard deviation, and...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Lo SC,Gaskill JW,Mun SK,Krasner BH

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital acquisition of data from the various imaging modalities for input to a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is discussed. Essential features for successful clinical implementation including Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) compliance, radiology information system (RIS)/hospit...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Andriole KP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid advances are changing the technology and applications of multidetector computed tomography (CT) scanners. The major increase in data associated with this new technology, however, breaks most commercial picture archiving and communication system (PACS) architectures by preventing them from delivering data in real...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Meenan C,Daly B,Toland C,Nagy P

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Our aim was to prove the feasibility of the remote interpretation of real-time transmitted ultrasound videos of dynamic and static organs using a smartphone with control of the image quality given a limited internet connection speed. For this study, 100 cases of echocardiography videos (dynamic organ)-50 with an eject...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kim C,Cha H,Kang BS,Choi HJ,Lim TH,Oh J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the implementation of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) has revolutionized the field of radiology, there has been considerably less utilization of PACS by emergency physicians with point-of-care ultrasound. Benefits of PACS archival of images include improved quality assurance, preservation of i...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kessler R,Stowell JR,Vogel JA,Liao MM,Kendall JL

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a review of image quality assessment methods for monochrome CRTs in the field as opposed to the laboratory. The review includes image quality programs at the University of Washington, the University of Texas at Houston, the University of Michigan, and the University of Arizona. CRT manufacturers ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Roehrig H,Willis CE,Damento MA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrated picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a large investment in both money and resources. With all of the components and systems contained in the PACS, a methodical set of protocols and procedures must be developed to test all aspects of the PACS within the short time allocated for contract co...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Lewis TE,Horton MC,Kinsey TV,Shelton PD

更新日期：1999-05-01 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

abstract：:Airway diseases are frequently related to morphological changes that may influence lung physiology. Accurate airway region segmentation may be useful for quantitative evaluation of disease prognosis and therapy efficacy. The information can also be applied to understand the fundamental mechanisms of various lung disea...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Lee M,Lee JG,Kim N,Seo JB,Lee SM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine whether facial photographs obtained simultaneously with radiographs improve radiologists' detection rate of wrong-patient errors, when they are explicitly asked to include the photographs in their evaluation. Radiograph-photograph combinations were obtained from 28 patients at the...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Tridandapani S,Olsen K,Bhatti P

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing radiologic exam volume and complexity necessitates leveraging advanced hardware solutions to optimize workflow efficiency. We evaluated radiologist satisfaction of a programmable 13-button non-conventional mouse compared to a conventional three-button mouse in daily interpretation workflow following a brief...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Denton K,Haider I,Hill J,Hunt SL,Ash R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive research efforts have been devoted to the feasibility of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in recent years. The advantages of PACS are numerous but mainly include reduced cost and improvement in the operational efficiency of a PACS-based radiology department. In digital radiography, images a...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Toney MO,Dominguez R,Dao HN,Simmons G

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information infrastructures involve the notion of a shared, open infrastructure, constituting a space where people, organizations, and technical components associate to develop an activity. The current infrastructure for medical image sharing, based on PACS/DICOM technologies, does not constitute an information infras...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Motta GHMB,Araújo DAB,Lucena-Neto JR,Azevedo-Marques PM,Cordeiro SS,Araújo-Neto SA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As hospitals convert from conventional image processing to picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) technology, new job opportunities arose for PACS analysts, PACS system administrators, PACS operators, and PACS trainers. To support a PACS, these positions require education in computer information systems an...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Cabrera A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequently when patient and study identification information (patient name, patient identification, date of birth, sex, and accession number) are manually entered at a modality, typographical errors occur that have to be corrected before the acquired images can be matched to the proper patient and study on a picture a...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kuzmak PM,Dayhoff RE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, two different approaches are proposed for region of interest (ROI) segmentation using transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images. The two methods aim to extract informative features that are able to characterize suspicious regions in the TRUS images. Both proposed methods are based on multi-resolution analysis...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mohamed SS,Li J,Salama MM,Freeman G

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of this study was to determine the reproducibility of the reading of wrist trauma case radiographs using three different media: laser film, a picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) workstation, and paper with an optimized layout. The study was conducted retrospectively in 200 consecutive pati...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Teixeira P,Zabel JP,Baumann C,Albizzati S,Coudane H,Winninger D,Blum A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic surgery requires knowledge of cerebral structures derived from more than one image source. We have developed a PC-AT-based workstation that accepts patient images, made with the stereotactic frame in place, from CT, MRI, and DSA modalities. Reference markers on the frame are identified in the images to es...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Peters TM,Clark JA,Pike GB,Henri C,Collins L,Leksell D,Jeppsson O

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00