A clinical image library using Photo CD

Abstract

In a move to update a collection of medical slide images and improve access to high-quality medical images for postgraduate teachers at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, a new collection of scanned slide images was created on Kodak Photo CD discs. Each image was available in five different resolutions. The images were catalogued in an image database by diagnosis, date, patient registration number, and anatomical view. Images could be accessed using simple search protocols and output to digital files, slides or prints.

Standards for digital photography in cranio-maxillo-facial surgery – Part II: Additional picture sets and avoiding common mistakes

“…For storage and archiving of digital patient images, authors have suggested different systems for cataloguing the photographs by diagnosis, date, patient registration number and type of photographic view using photo CD s (Nayler, 1998) or describe programs such as exif viewer s , dentofacial showcase s and PowerPoint s as alternative methods (Sandler and Murray, 2002b). Creating a directory tree known from windows explorer s leading to the final subfolder for patient's name is also described (Niamtu, 2004).…”

“…Although continuous change and advance in computer software must be expected, the currently available possibilities for the storage and retrieval of patient image data will be described and compared with suggestions from other authors (Nayler, 1998;Nayler et al, 2001;Niamtu, 2004).…”

An evaluation and comparison of three digital image databases

“…5 Unlimited keywords can be applied to each record, either from a master keyword list or user defined. Keyword searching is fast and efficient because the keywords are indexed.…”

The development of a digital image database of clinical photographs

“…Some of the difficulties of maintaining a slide library and the need for change have been described by Nayler. 2 Work undertaken by a visiting lecturer, using the UHW/UWCM library to compile an educational package, highlighted that, despite careful cataloguing under ICD-9, the library had become too large for the efficient search and retrieval of specific images.…”