Data overloading in medical imaging: Emerging issues, challenges and opportunities in efficient data management

Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 755-764

  Ng, K H ^a   Faust, Oliver ^b   Sudarshan, Vidya ^c   Chattopadhyay, Subhagata ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b HABIB UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Data management; Data overloading; Infrastructure; Medical imaging; Systems thinking; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SECURITY; DATA MINING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIVACY; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84931045401     PISSN: 21567018     EISSN: 21567026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2015.1449     Document Type: Article

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