A Teleradiology System Based on Collaboratory Technology

Abstract

A novel Java-based teleradiology system for Internet is presented. Using this system, an on-call off-duty radiologist can make diagnoses and consultations easily by reviewing the transferred images at home. Its image accessibility also allows us to assist an affiliate rural hospital without a full-time radiologist. All clients of this system are designed coincident. Their users may retrieve images, manipulate images and perform remote consultations. For remote consultation, screen synchronization is achieved by the command-passing technique and local command execution to reduce the network bandwidth and transmission time, and user interaction goes through a synchronized indicator for indication and dialog windows for convensation. Since Java programs may run on heterogeneous platforms, the need for system maintenance and user training can be minimized.