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Image acquisition context: procedure description attributes for clinically relevant indexing and selective retrieval of biomedical images
To support clinically relevant indexing of biomedical images and image-related information based on the attributes of image acquisition procedures and the judgments (observations) expressed by observers in the process of image interpretation. The authors introduce the notion of "image acquisiti...
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Published in: | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 1999-01, Vol.6 (1), p.61-75 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | To support clinically relevant indexing of biomedical images and image-related information based on the attributes of image acquisition procedures and the judgments (observations) expressed by observers in the process of image interpretation.
The authors introduce the notion of "image acquisition context," the set of attributes that describe image acquisition procedures, and present a standards-based strategy for utilizing the attributes of image acquisition context as indexing and retrieval keys for digital image libraries.
The authors' indexing strategy is based on an interdependent message/terminology architecture that combines the Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) standard, the SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine) vocabulary, and the SNOMED DICOM microglossary. The SNOMED DICOM microglossary provides context-dependent mapping of terminology to DICOM data elements.
The capability of embedding standard coded descriptors in DICOM image headers and image-interpretation reports improves the potential for selective retrieval of image-related information. This favorably affects information management in digital libraries. |
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ISSN: | 1067-5027 1527-974X |
DOI: | 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060061 |