Using image processing technique for supporting healthcare workers in collaborative works

Abstract

Collaborative work is an activity done by more than one person to get a job done. For healthcare workers, several jobs are considered as collaborative work such as consulting or diagnosis. In this study, medical images were used as the objects manipulated by physicians at different locations. They could manipulate and provide comments or opinions to each other during collaborative sessions which included time proximity: at the same time or at different time. The system composed of application program for managing collaboration and image processing functions. Two case studies have been done on analysis of tumor and diabetic retinopathy. The first case dealt with real-time collaboration at different locations while the second case dealt with different time collaboration.