Web-based medical image archive system

Edward B. Suh, Steven Warach, Huey Cheung, Shaohua A. Wang, Phanidral Tangiral, Marie Luby, Robert L. Martino, Eliot L. Siegel, H. K. Huang
2002 Medical Imaging 2002: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation  
This paper presents a Web-based medical image archive system that has a three-tier, client-server architecture for the storage and retrieval of medical image data, as well as patient information and clinical data. The Web-based medical image archive system was designed to meet the need of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a central image repository to address questions of stroke pathophysiology and imaging biomarkers in stroke clinical trials by analyzing images
more » ... ained from a large number of clinical trials conducted by government, academic and pharmaceutical industry researchers. In the database management-tier, we designed the image storage hierarchy to accommodate large binary image data files that the database software can access in parallel. In the middle-tier, a commercial Enterprise Java Bean server and secure Web server manages user access to the image database system. User-friendly Web-interfaces and applet tools are provided in the client-tier for easy access to the image archive system over the Internet. Benchmark test results show that our three-tier image archive system yields fast system response time for uploading, downloading, and querying the image database.
doi:10.1117/12.467027 fatcat:yz5navogp5b2tj73zmrt3h2xty