INTRODUCTION Digital imaging has become the most prominent modality in medicine. Beside computed tomography (CT) or nuclear medicine, which have been always digital, plain radiography, endoscopy, and microscopy are nowadays captured directly digital, too. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been established in the hospitals all over the world to manage these information reso...

The information contained in a DICOM image is very crucial for telemedicine, tele-radiology and other medical diagnosis and prognostic applications. In the field of medical transcription there have been various techniques in detecting the edge of an image. In most of the computer vision systems, DICOM image is considered as a standard digital imaging process of storing, capturing and transmitti...

Like other countries, the economic stimulus package in Japan is including healthcare delivery support. For the health informatics domain, there are two large subsidies proposed. One is to provide “the last one mile” optic fiber network to all hospitals in Japan. We have about 9000 hospitals nationwide, and some very local hospitals only have a slower network infrastructure. The other is to supp...

Delivering of medical image content to mobile/embedded devices with low storage and processing capabilities and low resolution displays is a challenging, but important task for achieving ubiquitous computing in modern hospital environments. The common approaches in industry and technical literature employ JPEG2000 compression and image streaming. Beside image compression, JPEG2000 facilitates i...

Quantitative analysis of clinical image data is an active area of research that holds promise for precision medicine, early assessment of treatment response, and objective characterization of the disease. Interoperability, data sharing, and the ability to mine the resulting data are of increasing importance, given the explosive growth in the number of quantitative analysis methods being propose...

Extremely large medical images, like ones of virtual slide microscopy, are beyond some limitations of the DICOM standard (e.g., a 4 Gbyte barrier, caused by 32-bit architecture). Some solutions and trade-offs have been already proposed and included in the DICOM standard (e.g., usage of JPEG2000 image compression standard, JPEG2000 interactive protocol [JPIP] and division of the images into smal...

The transmission of a suitably compressed image over a bandwidth, over long distances, gives rise towards a new era in the field of information technology. A gradual increase in this appending scenic application, involving the transfer of the images securely over the Ethernet has become an increasingly important aspect to be addressed during thou phenomenon, especially in the transfer of the di...

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is widely used in both scientific research and clinical practice in in-vivo studies of the human brain. While a number of post-processing packages have been developed, fully automated processing of dMRI datasets remains challenging. Here, we developed a MATLAB toolbox named "Pipeline for Analyzing braiN Diffusion imAges" (PANDA) for fully automated pr...