Towards an Information Infrastructure for Medical Image Sharing.

abstract：:This paper details our experience in developing and implementing an automated DICOM Image Router. This workstation serves as a gateway between image acquisition devices and image display and storage devices. Images are checked for demographic input errors and data format inconsistencies between the source and destinat...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Junck KL,McEachern M,Grandhi S,Lewey G

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Successful adoption of new technology development can be accentuated by learning and applying the scientific principles of innovation diffusion. This is of particular importance to areas within the medical imaging practice which have lagged in innovation; perhaps, the most notable of which is reporting which has remai...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Reiner BI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital imaging systems used in radiology rely on electronic display devices to present images to human observers. Active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) continue to improve and are beginning to be considered for diagnostic image display. In spite of recent progress, AMLCDs are characterized by a change in lum...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Fifadara DH,Averbukh A,Channin DS,Badano A

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:The purpose of this communication is to report on the testing of the disaster recovery capability of our hierarchical storage management (HSM) system. Disaster recovery implementation is a requirement of every mission-critical information technology project. Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) certainl...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Avrin DE,Andriole KP,Yin L,Gould R,Arenson RL

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent technological innovations have created new opportunities for the increased adoption of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications in medicine. While medical applications of VR have historically seen greater adoption from patient-as-user applications, the new era of VR/AR technology has created...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Sutherland J,Belec J,Sheikh A,Chepelev L,Althobaity W,Chow BJW,Mitsouras D,Christensen A,Rybicki FJ,La Russa DJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of medical checklists to promote patient safety raises the question of their utility in diagnostic radiology. This study evaluates the efficacy of a checklist-style reporting template in reducing resident misses on cervical spine CT examinations. A checklist-style reporting template for cervical spi...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Lin E,Powell DK,Kagetsu NJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel medical image quality index using grey relational coefficient calculation is proposed in this study. Three medical modalities, DR, CT and MRI, using 30 or 60 images with a total of 120 images used for experimentation. These images were first compressed at ten different compression ratios (10 ∼ 100) using a med...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Lin SC,Lin YC,Feng WS,Wu JM,Chen TJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast masses due to benign disease and malignant tumors related to breast cancer differ in terms of shape, edge-sharpness, and texture characteristics. In this study, we evaluate a set of 22 features including 5 shape factors, 3 edge-sharpness measures, and 14 texture features computed from 111 regions in mammograms,...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mu T,Nandi AK,Rangayyan RM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical image segmentation is the crucial process for three-dimensional (3D) modeling. Many studies have claimed to suggest more accurate ways of segmentation. However, such research seems to have the drawback that it works against the parsimony principle. These methods have to resegment the regions of interest (ROIs)...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Lee JW,Lee J,Kim D,Kim JH,Park KS,Kang HS

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate radiologist performance in detection of lacunar infarcts on T1- and T2-weighted images, without and with the use of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme. Thirty T1-weighted and 30 T2-weighted MR images obtained from 30 patients were used for assessing observ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Uchiyama Y,Asano T,Kato H,Hara T,Kanematsu M,Hoshi H,Iwama T,Fujita H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A C-language software program has been developed for emulating the image enhancement processing of a storage phosphor plate system. This software has been implemented on a VAX 3400 computer. There are 2,100 lines of C-language code in the program. There are seven parameters used to specify the degree of enhancement. T...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Templeton AW,Wetzel LH,Cook LT,Harrison LA,Eckard DA,Anderson WH,Hensley KS

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the clinical value of computed tomography (CT) image-based texture analysis in predicting microvascular invasion of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). CT images of patients with HCC from May 2017 to May 2019 confirmed by surgery and histopathology were retrospectively ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Li Y,Xu X,Weng S,Yan C,Chen J,Ye R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, a novel technique is proposed for computer-aided automatic extraction of microcalcifications in a digital mammogram. First, the microcalcifications are detected by morphological filtering, followed by entropy-based thresholding. Next, the microcalcifications are segmented by computing regional watershe...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Bhajammanavar VM,Keong KC,Krishnan SM

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:The efficacy of two medical-grade, self-calibrating, gray scale displays were compared with regard to impact on sensitivity and specificity for the detection of interstitial lung disease (ILD) on computed radiographs (CR). The displays were a 5-megapixel (MP) cathode ray tube (CRT) device and a 3-MP liquid crystal dis...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Langer S,Bartholmai B,Fetterly K,Harmsen S,Ryan W,Erickson B,Andriole K,Carrino J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a new neural network model inspired by the biological immune system functions is presented. The model, termed Artificial Immune-Activated Neural Network (AIANN), extracts classification knowledge from a training data set, which is then used to classify input patterns or vectors. The AIANN is based on a ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Younis A,Ibrahim M,Kabuka M,John N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A traditional radiological workflow is compared with one based on radiology information system/picture archiving and communication system (RIS/PACS). X-ray workflow process was considered in both radiology departments. First, the study identified the main phases of the research work as follows: Process Analysis, Data ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mariani C,Tronchi A,Oncini L,Pirani O,Murri R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, many hospitals have a running enterprise picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and their administrators should have the tools to measure the system activity and, in particular, how much it is used. The information would be valuable for decision-makers to address asset management and the development ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Calabrese R,Beltrame M,Accardo A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface morphology and shape in general are important predictors for the behavior of solid-type lung nodules detected on CT. More broadly, shape analysis is useful in many areas of computer-aided diagnosis and essentially all scientific and engineering disciplines. Automated methods for shape detection have all previo...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Stember JN

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of percutaneous, surgical, and medical therapies for vascular malformations (VMs) is often difficult to quantify volumetrically using cross-sectional imaging. Volumetric measurement is often estimated with serial, expensive MRI examinations which may require sedation or anesthesia. We aim to explore whether...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Speir EJ,Matthew Hawkins C,Weiler MJ,Briones M,Swerdlin R,Park S,Brandon Dixon J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interfacing of digital image acquisition modalities to the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) plays a major part in the conversion from a traditional film-based radiology practice to one that relies almost entirely on soft-copy reading. The Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is one of ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kuzmak PM,Reiner BI,Siegel EL,Severance SM,Dayhoff RE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed radiography of chest with a 4K image array was recently introduced. We performed a multiobserver study to compare the diagnostic accuracy of 2K (standard) and 4K (high quality) chest radiographs displayed on a 5-mega-pixel monitor (2K monitor). One hundred cases of posteroanterior chest radiographs (a total o...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kim SY,Hwang YJ,Han YH,Seo JW,Lee JY,Kim YH,Cha SJ,Hur G,Lee SS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a heuristic approach to automated nipple detection in digital mammograms is presented. A multithresholding algorithm is first applied to segment the mammogram and separate the breast region from the background region. Next, the problem is considered separately for craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral-obli...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Jas M,Mukhopadhyay S,Chakraborty J,Sadhu A,Khandelwal N

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex deformities of the spine, like scoliosis, are evaluated more precisely using stereo-radiographic 3D reconstruction techniques. Primarily, it uses six stereo-corresponding points available on the vertebral body for the 3D reconstruction of each vertebra. The wireframe structure obtained in this process has poor...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kumar S,Nayak KP,Hareesha KS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teleradiology applications often use an interactive conferencing mode with remote control mouse pointers. When a telephone is used for voice communication, latencies of the data network can create a temporal discrepancy between the position of the mouse pointer and the verbal communication. To assess the effects of th...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Stahl JN,Tellis W,Huang HK

更新日期：2000-08-01 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 objective of this study was to determine the differential cost between film-based radiology and a hospital-wide picture archiving and communication system (PACS) implemented all at once. The cash flow and running costs of PACS and film-based operation were measured over an 8-year time horizon. When the hospital-wi...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Fang YC,Yang MC,Hsueh YS

更新日期：2006-01-01 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