title: Computer applications in diagnostic imaging.
abstract: This article has introduced the nature, generation, use, and future of digital imaging. As digital technology has transformed other aspects of our lives--has the reader tried to buy a conventional record album recently? almost all music store stock is now compact disks--it is sure to continue to transform medicine as well. Whether that transformation will be to our liking as physicians or a source of frustration and disappointment is dependent on understanding the issues involved.
authors.affiliation: Image Management and Communications Section, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Horii
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D013679:Technology, Radiologic