ODTMIS: An on-demand transmission based medical image system for movable analysis

Abstract

Flexibility and timeliness of medical image analysis offered by mobile devices is useful in bedside patient attendance and emergency situations. However, movable management and collaboratively processing for mobile devices with low storage and processing capabilities and usually in poor network environment is still one of the biggest challenges to support this. Consequently, this paper presents an on-demand transmission based medical image system-ODTMIS. It gives functions of medical image management, dynamic browsing and collaborative processing for multi-terminals. ODTMIS only transmits data needed to represent the medical image in resolution and quality suitable for the device while accessing or collaboratively processing, which reduces transmitted image size and increases overall performance. Moreover, it can be available at the present of Web-browsers conveniently. Finally, the paper evaluates the prototype system using several kinds of medical data sets, which demonstrates the good performance of ODTMIS. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.