Rapid development of medical imaging tools with open-source libraries

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 83-93

  Caban, Jesus J ^a   Joshi, Alark ^a   Nagy, Paul ^b  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Open source; Programming language

Indexed keywords

IMAGING INFORMATICS; MEDICAL VISUALIZATION; OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35448951350     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9062-3     Document Type: Article

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