title: Embedding the shapes of regions of interest into a Clinical Document Architecture document.
abstract: Sharing a medical image visually annotated by a region of interest with a remotely located specialist for consultation is a good practice. It may, however, require a special-purpose (and most likely expensive) system to send and view them, which is an unfeasible solution in developing countries such as Vietnam. In this study, we design and implement interoperable methods based on the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture and the eXtensible Markup Language Stylesheet Language for Transformation standards to seamlessly exchange and visually present the shapes of regions of interest using web browsers. We also propose a new integration architecture for a Clinical Document Architecture generator that enables embedding of regions of interest and simultaneous auto-generation of corresponding style sheets. Using the Clinical Document Architecture document and style sheet, a sender can transmit clinical documents and medical images together with coordinate values of regions of interest to recipients. Recipients can easily view the documents and display embedded regions of interest by rendering them in their web browser of choice.
authors.affiliation: Kyungpook National University, Korea.
authors.forename: Nguyen Hai
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Minh
authors.affiliation: Samsung Medical Center, Korea byoungkeeyi@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Byoung-Kee
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.affiliation: Kyungpook National University, Korea.
authors.forename: Il Kon
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Kyungpook National University, Korea.
authors.forename: Joon Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Information and Communication Technology University, Vietnam.
authors.forename: Pham Viet
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Binh
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods; D011381:Programming Languages; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014744:Vietnam; D064878:Web Browser
keywords: Clinical Document Architecture; XSLT style sheet; clinical document; region of interest