The collection and analysis of clinical data are needed to investigate diseases and to define medical protocols and treatments. Bioimages, medical annotations and patient history are clinical data acquired and studied to perform a correct diagnosis and to propose an appropriate therapy. Currently, hospital departments manage these data using legacy systems which do not often allow data integration among different departments or health structures. Thus, in many cases clinical information sharing and exchange are difficult to implement. This is also the case for biomedical images for which data integration or data overlapping is usually not available. Image annotations and comparison can be crucial for physicians in many case studies. In this paper, a general purpose framework for bioimage management and annotations is proposed. Moreover, a simple-to-use information system has been developed to integrate clinical and diagnosis codes. The framework allows physicians (1) to integrate DICOM images from different platforms and (2) to report notes and highlights directly on images, thus offering, among the others, to query and compare similar clinical cases. This contribution is the result of a framework aimed to support oncologists in managing DICOM images and clinical data from different departments. Data integration is performed using a here-proposed XML-based module also utilized to trace temporal changes in image annotations.

An Innovative Framework for Bioimage Annotation and Studies

Vizza, P.;Tradigo, G.;
2018-01-01

Abstract

The collection and analysis of clinical data are needed to investigate diseases and to define medical protocols and treatments. Bioimages, medical annotations and patient history are clinical data acquired and studied to perform a correct diagnosis and to propose an appropriate therapy. Currently, hospital departments manage these data using legacy systems which do not often allow data integration among different departments or health structures. Thus, in many cases clinical information sharing and exchange are difficult to implement. This is also the case for biomedical images for which data integration or data overlapping is usually not available. Image annotations and comparison can be crucial for physicians in many case studies. In this paper, a general purpose framework for bioimage management and annotations is proposed. Moreover, a simple-to-use information system has been developed to integrate clinical and diagnosis codes. The framework allows physicians (1) to integrate DICOM images from different platforms and (2) to report notes and highlights directly on images, thus offering, among the others, to query and compare similar clinical cases. This contribution is the result of a framework aimed to support oncologists in managing DICOM images and clinical data from different departments. Data integration is performed using a here-proposed XML-based module also utilized to trace temporal changes in image annotations.
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