Medical Image Databases

List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Digital Image Management in Biomedicine; S.T.C. Wong. 2. Understanding and Using Dicom, the Data Interchange Standard for Biomedical Imaging; W.D. Bidgood, Jr., et al. 3. Multimodal Brain Atlases; A.W. Toga, P. Thompson. 4. The Use of Anatomical Knowledge in Medical Imaging: An Overview of the University of Washington Structural Informatics Group; J.F. Brinkley. 5. A Graphical Database for 3D Reconstruction Supporting (4) Different Geometrical Representations; F.J. Verbeek, D.P. Huijsmans. 6. Ontologies and Models for the Handling of Medical Images: Application to Image Databases; F. Aubry, et al. 7. Advances in Image Database Languages; J.D.N. Dionisio, A.F. Cardenas. 8. Indexing Large Collections of Tumor-Like Shapes; F. Korn, et al. 9. An Active Medical Information System Using Active Index and Artificial Neural Network; S.-K. Chang, et al. 10. Telematics in Healthcare; S.C. Orphanoudakis, et al. 11. Mission-DBS: A Distributed Multimedia Database System for High-Performance Telemedicine; H.-M. Chen, D.Y.Y. Yun. 12. Wavelet-Based Progressive Transmission and Security Filtering for Medical Image Distribution; J.Z. Wang, et al. 13. Web Access to National Health Survey Text/Image Databases; L.R. Long, G.R. Thomas. 14. Model-Based Mining of Remotely Sensed Data for Environmental and Public Health Applications; S.-C. Li, et al. 15. A Decision Support System Based on Congenital Malformation Image Databases; S. Tsumoto. Index.