title: Client-side Medical Image Colorization in a Collaborative Environment.
abstract: The paper presents an application related to collaborative medicine using a browser based medical visualization system with focus on the medical image colorization process and the underlying open source web development technologies involved. Browser based systems allow physicians to share medical data with their remotely located counterparts or medical students, assisting them during patient diagnosis, treatment monitoring, surgery planning or for educational purposes. This approach brings forth the advantage of ubiquity. The system can be accessed from a any device, in order to process the images, assuring the independence towards having a specific proprietary operating system. The current work starts with processing of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) files and ends with the rendering of the resulting bitmap images on a HTML5 (fifth revision of the HyperText Markup Language) canvas element. The application improves the image visualization emphasizing different tissue densities.
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timişoara/Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Timişoara, Romania.
authors.forename: Ioan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Virag
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timişoara/Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Timişoara, Romania.
authors.forename: Lăcrămioara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stoicu-Tivadar
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timişoara/Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Timişoara, Romania.
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crişan-Vida
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019112:Teleradiology / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration