IBMAS: an Internet Based Medical Archive System

Author

Zhang, Zhongfei ; Krol, Andrzej ; Pu, Guangbiao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

541

Lastpage

546

Abstract

Presents IBMAS (Internet-Based Medical Archive System). IBMAS is a prototype system of a proposed research paradigm aiming at building up a distributed archival system over the Internet to facilitate medical practitioners to maintain, share, update, search and process medical information conveniently and consistently. IBMAS differs from existing systems in the sense that it not only offers a full spectrum of online communications, processing and annotation tools, but also provides powerful multi-modal search functionalities to the users. In addition, the database is always kept in a “live” mode such that information contributed by users is periodically indexed. A preliminary version of IBMAS containing over 2,000 medical images in different modalities along with associated annotation text for each of the images has been fully implemented and is under evaluation

Keywords

Internet; PACS; database indexing; distributed databases; IBMAS; Internet; Internet-Based Medical Archive System; PACS; annotation tools; distributed archival system; live database; medical imaging modalities; medical information; medical practitioners; multi-modal search functionalities; online communications; periodic indexing; prototype system; research paradigm; Biomedical imaging; Computer science; Hospitals; Image databases; Information retrieval; Internet; Medical diagnostic imaging; Prototypes; Radiology; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2001. CBMS 2001. Proceedings. 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1004-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2001.941775

Filename

941775