Mobile teleradiology system suitable for m-health services supporting content and semantic based image retrieval on a grid infrastructure

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug:2016:5380-5383. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591943.

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.

MeSH terms

  • Biological Ontologies
  • Humans
  • Radiology Information Systems* / instrumentation
  • Semantics
  • Teleradiology / methods*