title: CADe system integrated within the electronic health record.
abstract: The latest technological advances and information support systems for clinics and hospitals produce a wide range of possibilities in the storage and retrieval of an ever-growing amount of clinical information as well as in detection and diagnosis. In this work, an Electronic Health Record (EHR) combined with a Computer Aided Detection (CADe) system for breast cancer diagnosis has been implemented. Our objective is to provide to radiologists a comprehensive working environment that facilitates the integration, the image visualization, and the use of aided tools within the EHR. For this reason, a development methodology based on hardware and software system features in addition to system requirements must be present during the whole development process. This will lead to a complete environment for displaying, editing, and reporting results not only for the patient information but also for their medical images in standardised formats such as DICOM and DICOM-SR. As a result, we obtain a CADe system which helps in detecting breast cancer using mammograms and is completely integrated into an EHR.
authors.affiliation: VISILAB Group, E.T.S.I. Industriales, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Noelia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vállez
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bueno
authors.forename: Óscar
authors.initials: Ó
authors.lastname: Déniz
authors.forename: María del Milagro
authors.initials: Mdel M
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pastor
authors.forename: Miguel Ángel
authors.initials: MÁ
authors.lastname: Rienda
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Esteve
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arias
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D012984:Software