title: Medical image informatics infrastructure design and applications.
abstract: Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) is a system integration of multimodality images and health information systems designed for improving the operation of a radiology department. As it evolves, PACS becomes a hospital image document management system with a voluminous image and related data file repository. A medical image informatics infrastructure can be designed to take advantage of existing data, providing PACS with add-on value for health care service, research, and education. A medical image informatics infrastructure (MIII) consists of the following components: medical images and associated data (including PACS database), image processing, data/knowledge base management, visualization, graphic user interface, communication networking, and application oriented software. This paper describes these components and their logical connection, and illustrates some applications based on the concept of the MIII.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0628, USA.
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: S T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pietka
mesh_terms: D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D002648:Child; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration