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Updated: Feb 1, 97 |
Group 2. Medical Multimedia Workstations and Images, Mobility and Education | |
The field is of strategic importance, because an X-rays department by itself produces almost 90% of the total data produced in an hospital, if digitised. So cost-effectiveness and acceptability from the users are two key points on which this project line insisted.
The following projects have been grouped into this line:
| ATIM | Assessment of Information Technology in Medicine |
| COVIRA | Computer Vision in Radiology |
| EDUCTRA | Concerted Action on Education and Training in Health Care Informatics |
| EURIPACS | European Integrated PACS |
| MARIA | Multimedia applications for regional and international access |
| MILORD | Multimedia Interaction with Radiology Databases |
| MOBICARE | Strategy definition for promoting mobile health care telematics services in Europe |
| SAMMIE | Software for Multimodal Images and Education |
All projects were complementary with a number of common interests. EuriPACS developed picture archiving and communication systems, i.e. transmitting images within the hospital and between hospitals. Image archiving implies the creation of very large databases, so the question is how to use them most effectively. MILORD looked at this type of problems, like addressing and retrieving images not just by patient name, but in terms of the image content. Also SAMMIE and COVIRA addressed this aspect, SAMMIE primarily for diagnosis and educational purposes. COVIRA deals mainly with treatment planning, e.g. neurosurgery and radiotherapy.
Their results have been:
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