OPENNESS IN ( TELE-) RADIOLOGY WORKSTATIONS : THE CHILI ® PLUGIN CONCEPT
OPENNESS IN ( TELE-) RADIOLOGY WORKSTATIONS : THE CHILI ® PLUGIN CONCEPT
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(远程)放射工作站的开放性:CHILI ® 插件概念
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1998
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通讯作者:
H. Meinzer
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作者:
U. Engelmann;A. Schröter;U. Baur;M. Schwab;O. Werner;M. Makabe;H. Meinzer
Several problems can be observed today in the field of computer assisted radiology. Nearly every application in the radiology department needs it’s own computer: Console computers are necessary to operate the imaging modalities. Viewing stations are used for reporting or further analysis of the image data. Terminals of the radiology informations system RIS are used to manage and organize the patient information flow. Additional personal computers are used for word processing (e.g. reports, publications). New computers for teleradiology are now entering the radiology department. Developers of new medial image analysis applications have the problem, that the current computer applications (e.g. viewing stations) are not open enough. Every developer has to care about the connection to the modality or viewing station, file formats, data storage of files on the disk or in a data base system, and the display of 12-bit images on 8-bit screens. Developing a new method for the radiologist means to invent many wheels a second or third time before the real problems can be addressed. Most of the manufacturers of the existing viewing stations do not allow the installation of additional software. Usually, the customers do not get the root password of the systems. An additional computer with different user interfaces and additional interfaces to the rest of the world has to be introduced therefore to get the new functionality to the users. The result of the depicted problems is that it needs a lot of effort for developers to implement and introduce new methods and that it is costly for the end user. This paper describes how the (tele-) radiology workstation CHILI avoids a number of this problems.