New Technology in Medical Imaging

Biomedical images of the human body are an invaluable source of information that clinicians can use in order to make a correct and final diagnosis. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is used by radiologists as a second opinion has become one of the major research areas in medical imaging. The computer assisted diagnosis need not be comparable to that of physicians, but is surely complementary. PACS (picture archiving and communication system) are computers or networks that present, distribute, store, and retrieve images from one or more medical imaging instruments, i.e. mammogram, ultrasound, endoscopy, magnetic resonance, etc., and are viewed on monitors along with a patient’s clinical details and radiological reports. By using PACS the medical image interpretation may be changed from conventional hard copy images to soft-copy studies and viewed on the systems workstations.