NDLI: A web-based image viewer for multiple PET-CT follow-up studies

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Haraguchi, D. Jinman Kim Kumar, A. Constantinescu, L. Lingfeng Wen Feng, D.D.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: BMIT Research Group, School of IT, University of Sydney, Australia (Haraguchi, D.; Jinman Kim; Kumar, A.; Constantinescu, L.; Lingfeng Wen; Feng, D.D.)
Abstract	There exist many viewers for single-modal medical images that are efficient and are equipped with powerful analysis tools. However, there is a distinct lack of efficient image viewers for multi-modality images, particularly for displaying multiple follow-up studies that depict a patient's response to treatment over time. Such viewers would be required to display large amounts of image data. In this study, we present the TAGIGEN viewer — a web-based image viewer designed specifically for the visualisation of multi-modality follow-up studies. We innovate by defining a series of dynamically generated image grid layouts that display sets of related images together in order to improve the ability to compare and assimilate the myriad images. We adopted a web-based client-server image streaming technology, thus enabling interactive navigation of the images in a computationally efficient manner. Furthermore, our web-based approach is interoperable and requires no software installation. We evaluated the ability of our viewer in displaying and understanding a patient's follow-up images in a case study with combined positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) follow-up scans. We conducted a usability survey on 10 participants to measure the usefulness of our viewer, used as an outpatient viewer e.g. viewer designed for use by the patients, in tracking a patient's disease state across four PET-CT studies. Our initial results suggest that our viewer was able to efficiently visualise the patient data over time, and that the web-based implementation was fast (loading on average within 5.6 seconds with real-time navigation) and easy to use (overall survey score higher than 4 / 5).
Starting Page	5279
Ending Page	5282
File Size	712434
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424441211
ISSN	1557170X
e-ISBN	9781457715891
e-ISBN	9781424441228
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091306
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-08-30
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Positron emission tomography Navigation Computed tomography Streaming media Tumors Biomedical imaging Response to treatment Web-based viewer Multi-modality imaging PET-CT Follow-up scans
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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