An improved platform for medical E-learning

Abstract

The paper presents an improved E-Learning platform that is especially designed for medical education. There are presented users tasks, having the following roles: administrator, secretary and teacher. The facilities of the students are also presented: students have the possibility to download course materials, take tests or sustain final examinations and communicate with all parties involved. An element of originality for this platform is the image database that is permanently updated by the teachers. The students can use this database for simple text based queries, or content-based visual queries. The content-based visual query represents a modern possibility to query the image databases using characteristics that were automatically extracted from images: colour, texture or regions. Combining content-based visual query with other access methods (text-based, hierarchical methods) for a teaching image database, helps students to view images in the database in a simple and direct manner, stimulating learning by comparing the similar cases and their particularities, or comparing similar images that have different diagnostics. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.