Title :
IMAGENCIES: network image services for telemedicine applications
Author :
Roberto, Vito ; Mea, Vincenzo Della
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Udine Univ., Italy
Abstract :
A network of distributed image-based medical services (Imagencies) is proposed. Each one is a community of specialised, co-operating programs (Imagents), providing acquisition, processing, archiving and management facilities. Both synchronous and asynchronous communication are proposed, based on the standard protocols available on the Internet. We describe a prototype implementation in the field of telepathology. At present, the Imagency includes a secretary and an image processing specialist; asynchronous communication is realised by the standard MIME protocol for multimedia electronic mail. Practical results and future perspectives are presented and discussed
Keywords :
Internet; electronic mail; knowledge acquisition; medical expert systems; medical image processing; multi-agent systems; multimedia communication; protocols; telemedicine; Imagencies; Imagents; Internet; MIME protocol; acquisition; archiving; asynchronous communication; co-operating programs; distributed medical services; image processing specialist; management; multimedia electronic mail; network image services; secretary; synchronous communication; telemedicine; telepathology; Application software; Asynchronous communication; Biomedical imaging; Communication standards; Image processing; Medical services; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Prototypes; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Image Analysis and Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Palermo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1183-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICIAP.2001.957059
