PDA-based system with teleradiology and image analysis capabilities.
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2007-11-16
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The aim of the present study was to design and implement a Personal Digital Assistant PDA based teleradiology system incorporating image processing and analysis facilities for use in emergency situations within a hospital environment The system comprised a DICOM server connected to an MRI unit 3 wireless access points and 3 PDAs HP iPaq rx3715 PDA application software was developed in MS Embedded Visual C 4 0 Each PDA can receive load process and analyze hi quality static MR images Image processing includes gray scale manipulation and spatial filtering techniques while image analysis incorporates a probabilistic neural network PNN classifier which was optimally designed employing a suitable combination of textural features and was evaluated using the leave one out method The PNN is capable of discriminating between three major types of human brain tumors with accuracy of 86 66 The developed application may be useful as a mobile medical teleconsultation tool
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At risk for a particular disease or infection, Facility-based health worker, Access to information or data, Prototype, Acute or emergency, Disease diagnosis / Point-of-care diagnostics, Image, Decision support algorithm