1. Outcomes from Indexing Initiatives of Medical Imaging DICOM Metadata Repositories. A Secondary Analysis.
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Santos, Milton and Rocha, Nelson Pacheco
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DIAGNOSTIC imaging ,METADATA ,OPENURL (Uniform resource locator) ,HEALTH care networks ,MEDICAL technology ,INFORMATION sharing - Abstract
Abstract To optimize the usage of the enormous amount of data that results from medical imaging studies (e.g. Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine – DICOM – metadata), which is relevant to characterize healthcare provision, it is pertinent to identify the main advantages and challenges related to the indexing of DICOM metadata for secondary analyses. In the study reported in the present paper, the authors performed a secondary analysis on the results of research studies supported on the indexing of DICOM metadata from Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) of different healthcare facilities. The analysis was made according to two perspectives: i) advantages of indexing and analyzing DICOM metadata from the PACS of different healthcare facilities; and ii) challenges associated to the indexing and managing of large volumes of DICOM metadata. The research studies being analyzed revealed the potential for the use of DICOM metadata by aggregating and consolidating huge amounts of DICOM metadata to characterize healthcare provision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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