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A Baskurt

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CARDIOMEDIA: a communicable multimedia medical record on Intranet and digital optical memory card.

As part of French health reform, French physicians were computerised by the end of 1998. A specific Intranet network will be used to communicate medical data between the health professionals. The objectives of the CARDIOMEDIA project were to develop and evaluate the feasibility of a coronary multimedia data record stored on an optical card and communicable on Intranet within the hospital. Patients treated by angioplasty at the University Hospital of Rennes participated in the experiment. In general, patients are treated in the University Hospital and are followed up by another health care provider closer to their home. The patient leaves the University Hospital with his card, which is directly available elsewhere for emergency or for consultation. This approach is assumed to reduce the number of examinations and to offer a better patient follow-up. The CARDIOMEDIA card is a specialised record including various data types: text, images, image sequences of coronarography and ECG signals. For this purpose an optical card with its large memory is very convenient. We used the DICOM format for image exchange and management. It is combined with CARDIOMEDIA specific compressing software. For the multimedia record the HTML format and web Intranet method are chosen. This provides an intuitive interface which can combine various data types and helper applications like a DICOM image viewer.

Angioplasty↗

Multiresolution texture based adaptive clustering algorithm for breast lesion segmentation.

OBJECTIVE: A specific algorithm is presented for the automatic extraction of breast tumors in ultrasonic imaging. METHOD: The algorithm involves two-dimensional adaptive K-means clustering of the gray scale and textural feature images. The segmentation problem is formulated as a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation problem. The MAP estimation is achieved using Besag's iterated conditional modes algorithm for the minimization of an energy function. This function has three components: the first constrains the region to be close to the data; the second imposes spatial continuity; and the third takes into consideration the texture of the various regions. A multiresolution implementation of the algorithm is performed using a waveless basis. RESULTS: Experiments were carried out on synthetic images and on in vivo breast ultrasound images. Various parameters involved in the algorithm are discussed to evaluate the robustness and accuracy of the segmentation method. CONCLUSION: Including textural features in the segmentation of ultrasonic data improves the robustness of the algorithm and makes the segmentation result less parameter dependent.

Adenocarcinoma↗

Cardiomedia: a multimedia portable medical record on optical memory card.

The main objective of the CARDIOMEDIA project is to produce and evaluate a coronarian multimedia data record stored on an optical card. The experimentation concerns patients treated by angioplasty at university hospital of Rennes. Often patients treated in the Regional University Hospital are followed up by another Health structure closer to their home. The patient leaves hospital with his card, which is directly available elsewhere for emergency or for consultation. This will optimize the number of examinations and offer a better patient follow-up. The CARDIOMEDIA card is a specialized record which includes various data type: text, image, image sequence of coronarography and ECG signal. For this purpose optical card with its large memory size is very convenient. For medical imaging, we use in this project the DICOM format for image exchange and management, it is combined with a CARDIOMEDIA specific compressing software. For multimedia record, the HTML format and web intranet method are chosen, this allows intuitive interface which can combine various data type and helpers like DICOM image viewer.

Cardiovascular Diseases↗

ROC assessment of compressed wrist radiographs.

The aim of this paper is to validate a compression scheme applied on a medical image database of digitized wrist radiographs. The compression scheme adapts itself to local statistical properties of the images. The diagnostic quality of the reconstructed images is evaluated using a ROC protocol involving five medical experts. The results of this evaluation enable us to validate the compression scheme on this database with a compression ratio of 40 (0.2 bits per pixel).

Humans↗