title: An integrated medical image database and retrieval system using a web application server.
abstract: We developed an Integrated Medical Image Database and Retrieval System (INIS) for easy access by medical staff. The INIS mainly consisted of four parts: specific servers to save medical images from multi-vendor modalities of CT, MRI, CR, ECG and endoscopy; an integrated image database (DB) server to save various kinds of images in a DICOM format; a Web application server to connect clients to the integrated image DB and the Web browser terminals connected to an HIS system. The INIS provided a common screen design to retrieve CT, MRI, CR, endoscopic and ECG images, and radiological reports, which would allow doctors to retrieve radiological images and corresponding reports, or ECG images of a patient simultaneously on a screen. Doctors working in internal medicine on average accessed information 492 times a month. Doctors working in cardiological and gastroenterological accessed information 308 times a month. Using the INIS, medical staff could browse all or parts of a patient's medical images and reports.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics and Pharmaceutics, Division of Information Science and Biostatistics, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Asahi-machi 1-754, Niigata 951-8520, Japan.
authors.forename: Pengyu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashiba
authors.forename: Kouhei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akazawa
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamakawa
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuto
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D010820:Physicians; D014584:User-Computer Interface