title: World Wide Web interface to digital imaging and communication in medicine-capable image servers.
abstract: As a trial project, the Indiana University Department of Radiology has develop[ed a low-cost manner of distributing radiological images throughout a medical environment using the World Wide Web (WWW). The interface requires the user to have a WWW-browser client, such as Netscape, running on UNIX, PC, or Macintosh platforms. A forms-based interface allows the user to query several DICOM-capable machines at the machine, patient, study, series, and image levels. Once an image transfer is initiated, images are prewindowed from 16- to 8-bits, compressed using public domain Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) compression routines, transferred to the WWW client program, and decompressed and displayed using a locally selected image viewing program. At the currently implemented level of compression (75% quality), the entire fetch-transform-JPEG-display process takes 2 to 5 seconds over Ethernet, depending on the platform used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis 46202-5111, USA.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Browning
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Buckwalter
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Kruger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aisen
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards; D003196:Computer Graphics; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000592:standards; D014584:User-Computer Interface