title: [Digitized medical images].
abstract: Digitalization of medical images implies that we are able to process images by computers, are able to make as many as exact copies of original images, and are able to transfer images without any loss of information. Clinical usefulness of image processing with special attention to three dimentional images were discussed. There are many problem to be solved in the development of PACS. It is important at least now that discussion of images for primary diagnosis and images for reference should be done separately. Utilization of digitized images for education is promising. A trial of education using a world wide web server-client system was reported. Possible trends of digitized medical images were described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishitani
mesh_terms: D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D011871:Radiology / Q000193:education; D011873:Radiology Information Systems