Radiologic image library for pathology related searches

Clinical environments require that information systems provide efficient access to the stored data. The actual effort is devoted to the evolution from archives towards integrated databases, including both data and images, allowing the researcher as well as the clinician to perform longitudinal and transversal studies, based on keys, lemmas and notes describing both pictorial and pathological features. The present study aims to apply to a medical information system, tools and methods, derived from computational linguistics, to allow the navigation, annotation and creative analysis of the stored data (in particular radiologic images of cardiological and pneumological patients) for longitudinal and transversal studies.