WebMIRS: web-based medical information retrieval system

L. Rodney Long; Stanley R. Pillemer; Reva C. Lawrence; Gin-Hua Goh; Leif Neve; George R. Thoma

doi:10.1117/12.298448

23 December 1997 WebMIRS: web-based medical information retrieval system

L. Rodney Long, Stanley R. Pillemer, Reva C. Lawrence, Gin-Hua Goh, Leif Neve, George R. Thoma

Proceedings Volume 3312, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298448
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

At the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a research and development division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), we are developing a prototype multimedia database system to provide World Wide Web access to biomedical databases. WebMIRS (Web-based Medical Information Retrieval System) will allow access to databases containing text and images and will allow database query by standard SQL, by image content, or by a combination of the two. The system is being developed in the form of Java applets, which will communicate with the Informix DBMS on an NLM Sun workstation running the Solaris operating system. The system architecture will allow access from any hardware platform, which supports a Java-enabled Web browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. Initial databases will include data from two national health surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and will include x-ray images from those surveys. In addition to describing in- house research in database access systems, this paper describes ongoing work toward querying by image content. Image content search capability will include capability to search for x-ray images similar to an input image with respect to vertebral morphometry used to characterize features such as fractures and disc space narrowing.

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L. Rodney Long, Stanley R. Pillemer, Reva C. Lawrence, Gin-Hua Goh, Leif Neve, and George R. Thoma "WebMIRS: web-based medical information retrieval system", Proc. SPIE 3312, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, (23 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298448

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