THOPACS : The multi-modality, image review diagnosis, archiving and analysis system

Author

van der Putten, N. ; de Winter, S. ; de Wijs, M. ; Hamers, R.

Author_Institution

Erasmus Med. Center, Rotterdam

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

294

Abstract

We have developed and introduced a digital multi-modality image infrastructure in a multi-vender networked environment. This cardiology PACS (THOPACS) provides facilities for network communication between all DICOM-image generating systems in the Thoraxcentre. It facilitates hospital-wide access to all cardiology images and analysis results. THOPACS is integrated in the medical workstation of our hospital offering simultaneous presentation of images and related reports along with test results. This paper focuses mainly on the solutions for handling huge datasets, the archiving strategy, the automatic uploading of images from other hospitals, workflow support and the interoperability with image analysis systems.

Keywords

PACS; angiocardiography; echocardiography; medical image processing; DICOM-image generating system; THOPACS; Thoraxcentre; angiography; automatic image uploading; cardiology PACS; cardiology image analysis; dataset handling; digital echocardiography; digital multimodality image infrastructure; hospital-wide access; image review diagnosis; medical workstation; multivender networked environment; network communication; picture archiving strategy; workflow support system; Biomedical imaging; Blades; Cardiology; DICOM; Hospitals; Image analysis; Image storage; Medical diagnostic imaging; Network servers; Picture archiving and communication systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2008

Conference_Location

Bologna

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3706-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2008.4749035

Filename

4749035