title: Mobile teleradiology system suitable for m-health services supporting content and semantic based image retrieval on a grid infrastructure.
abstract: Teleradiology systems tackle the problem of transferring radiological images between medical image workstations for facilitating different medical activities, e.g., diagnosis, treatment and follow up a patient, medical training, or consulting second opinion. Nowadays, m-Health (aka mobile health) is becoming popular because of high quality of mobile displays, although remains a work in progress. In this paper a mobile teleradiology system is reported, which main contribution is the development of a platform: (1) supported by a Grid infrastructure, (2) using biomedical ontologies for adding semantic annotations on medical images, and (3) supporting semantic and content-based image retrieval. Images are located physically in different repositories like; hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers. All these features make the system ubiquitous, portable, and suitable for m-Health services.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: La Cruz
authors.forename: Ruben
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Medina
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vega
authors.forename: Wilson
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ochoa
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Saquicela
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Espinoza
authors.forename: Lizandro
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Solano-Quinde
authors.forename: Maria-Esther
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Vidal
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D006801:Humans; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D012660:Semantics; D019112:Teleradiology / Q000379:methods*