A distributed picture archiving and communications system for hospitals using image pre-fetching

Author

Reijns, Gerard L.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 Jan 1995

Firstpage

470

Abstract

A laboratory picture archiving and communications system for hospitals (PACS) was built which consists of a network, image acquisition stations, viewing stations, a relational database and an image storage system. Acceptable response times have been obtained by using a hierarchical image storage system and by applying pre-fetching of image data at two levels. Response times provided by a performance model are compared with measured values obtained from the real system. To keep the cost down, our PACS has been built using standard software and standard protocols wherever possible

Keywords

PACS; medical computing; medical image processing; protocols; PACS; distributed picture archiving and communications system; hierarchical image storage system; hospitals; image acquisition stations; image data; image prefetching; image storage system; performance model; relational database; response times; standard protocols; standard software; viewing stations; Communication standards; Delay; Hospitals; Image coding; Image databases; Image generation; Image storage; Picture archiving and communication systems; Relational databases; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1995. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6930-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1995.375630

Filename

375630