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Workshops
Digitized Radiographic Images: Challenges and Opportunities
Bethesda, MD, June 2-3, 1993
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), the National Center for Health Statitstics, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have been collaborating to develop a workstation for the display and reading of digitized radiographs from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). State-of-the-art digitized images of radiographs from this survey are being produces at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The project includes the rapid transmission of images over data lines to remote locations.
The images were digitized partly because of difficulties in obtaining standardized readings of the NHANES II radiographs, and to address the problem of pyhsically deteriorating radiographs.
The capacity to produce digitized radiographic images and disseminate them via optical disks or via data transmission lines is expected to revolutionize research in this area. A large number of investigators and users would have easy access to the 17,000 radiographs from the NHANES II study. Previously, the logisitics of distributing such a large number of radiographs to a limited number of investigators was daunting. This project could eventually leas to the development of a more general online atlas of radiographic images.
The workshop covered the technical, statistical, radiologic, rheunatologic, and epidemilogic aspects of the digitized images.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
U.S. Dept. of Health