semantic pacs - Emílio de Azevedo Campos, SA

SEMANTIC PACS
PROJECT FACTS
CONSORTIUM
Co-funded under the Quadro de Referência
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Estratégico Nacional, call number:
Emílio Azevedo Campos, S. A.,
Portugal
09/SI/2008
Acronym: Semantic PACS
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INESC Porto – Instituto de
Engenharia de Sistemas e
Instrument: Programa Operacional Factores
Computadores do Porto,
de Competitividade
PICTURE ARCHIVING AND
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
WITH SEMANTIC SEARCH
ENGINE
Start date: January 1, 2009
Portugal
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End date: June 30, 2011
Engenharia da Universidade do
Project budget: 319 494 EUR
FEDER funding: 212.387 EUR
FEUP – Faculdade de
Porto, Portugal
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Hospital de São João, Porto,
Portugal
Contract no 3472
Contacts:
Emílio de Azevedo Campos, S.A.
Pedro Cardoso
email: [email protected]
INESC Porto
Jaime S. Cardoso
email: [email protected]
Webmail
http://www.eacampos.pt/gca/index.php?are
a=solucoes&id=186
SEMANTIC PACS
http://www.eacampos.pt/gca/index.php?area=solucoes&id=186
PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE
MOTIVATION.
OBJECTIVES.
The arrival of computers and data networks in the medical environment has strongly contributed to
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Develop solutions to integrate with traditional
PACS that support automatic, semantic
improve the quality and decision taking in healthcare.
based, description and search methods
Digital Medical archives and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) are one of the
directly over medical images.
most important improvements that, although still presenting a few limitations, significantly contribute
to better medicine at a lower cost.
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on the similarity of medical images archived
With the exponential increase of medical data in digital archives, it is becoming more and more
in the system.
difficult to automate certain analysis or search related tasks, making it necessary to investigate better
and alternative ways to use medical data and creating more efficient interfaces to access it.
Generate on-the-fly diagnosis reports based
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Prototype development for breast cancer
screening
IMPACT.
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Improvement in the quality of the health care,
speeding up the time to output a diagnostic
and its quality
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Significant Quality Of Life improvement in
patients
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Special Assistance for Radiologists and
Other Caregivers Doing Interpretations
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It shall contribute as well to the European
Community to become the world leading
knowledge society