normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: medical records department (mrd) is an important source for evaluating and planning of care services. the main goal of this research was performance evaluation of medical records department with balanced scorecard (bsc) approach in a hospital of isfahan, iran. methods: this research was a descriptive, cross s...

a 46- year–old man with pulmonary tuberculosis which had treated with ant tuberculosis drugs was referred to medical mycology laboratory, school of public health and institute of public health research for coughing and bloody sputum. chest x-ray revealed a cavern with a moveable mass in right apical lobe. direct examination of sputum showed wide septated dichotomous hyphae and aspergillus fumig...

A 3-year-old female toddler was referred to our pediatric emergency unit with a 2-week history of fatigue, anorexia, progressive pallor, and vomiting. Medical history showed that iron deficiency anemia was diagnosed one year before and oral iron-sulfate was given. She also had a one year history of intermittent vomiting. Her diet seemed adequate in iron-rich foods. Chest X-ray and abdominal ult...

  Introduction: The Republic of Korea has developed a national standard based on which diagnostic X-ray equipment must be tested every 3 years. Accordingly, the performance of X-ray equipment used in all hospitals is evaluated by national certification bodies in compliance with the safety management regulations for X-ray equipment. However, if the equipment i...

In this study we present an efficient image categorization system for medical image databases utilizing a local patch representation based on both content and location. The system discriminates between healthy and pathological cases and indicates the subregion in the image that is automatically found to be most relevant for the decision. We show an application to pathology-level categorization ...

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OBJECTIVES X-rays are widely used in medical examinations. In particular, chest X-rays are the most frequent imaging test. However, observations are usually recorded in a free-text format. Therefore, it is difficult to standardize the information provided to construct a database for the sharing of clinical data. Here, we describe a simple X-ray observation entry system that can interlock with a...