Quality-of-service improvements from coupling a digital chest unit with integrated speech recognition, information, and picture archiving and communications systems

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 191-197

  Pavlicek, William ^a   Muhm, John R ^a   Collins, Joe M ^a   Zavalkovskiy, Boris ^a   Peter, Bradley S ^a   Hindal, Mark D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INTEGRATED SPEECH RECOGNITION; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS); RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS (RIS);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL RECORD; SPEECH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

EID: 0033216515     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03168855     Document Type: Article

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