title: BIRD: Bio-Image Referral Database. Design and implementation of a new web based and patient multimedia data focused system for effective medical diagnosis and therapy.
abstract: This paper presents a low cost software platform prototype supporting health care personnel in retrieving patient referral multimedia data. These information are centralized in a server machine and structured by using a flexible eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Bio-Image Referral Database (BIRD). Data are distributed on demand to requesting client in an Intranet network and transformed via eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) to be visualized in an uniform way on market browsers. The core server operation software has been developed in PHP Hypertext Preprocessor scripting language, which is very versatile and useful for crafting a dynamic Web environment.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pinciroli
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masseroli
authors.forename: Livio A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Acerbo
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bonacina
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marchente
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007558:Italy; D011381:Programming Languages; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013812:Therapeutics