Intelligent image management in a distributed PACS and telemedicine environment

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 36-45

  Tsiknakis, Manolis ^a,c,d   Katehakis, Dimitrios G ^a,e,f   Orphanoudakis, Stelios C ^a,b,g,h,i  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Med Information Systems Laboratory

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; HEALTH TELEMATICS; HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; INFORMATION RESOURCES; INTELLIGENT IMAGE MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL HEALTH TELEMATICS NETWORK; TELEMEDICINE;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECONFERENCING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0030193564     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.526886     Document Type: Article

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