WWW Based Service for Automated Interpretation of Diagnostic Imgages: The AIDI-Heart Project

Automated Interpretation of Diagnosti Images: The AIDI-Heart Proje t Mattias Ohlsson, PhD1, Andreas J arund2, Lars Edenbrandt, MD, PhD2 1 Department of Theoreti al Physi s, Lund University, Sweden, mattias thep.lu.se 2 Department of Clini al Physiology, Lund University, Sweden http://ism.thep.lu.se/ Abstra t. This paper presents AIDI-Heart, a omputer-based de ision support tool for automated interpretation of diagnosti heart images, whi h is made available via the web. The tool is based on image pro essing te hniques, arti ial neural networks, and large and well validated medi al databases. The performan e of the tool has been evaluated in several re ent papers and the results show the high potential for the tool as a lini al de ision support system. The tool has now been integrated into a WWW environment for easy a ess and operation using your favourite web-browser. This rst version of AIDI-Heart is evaluated by three hospitals, two in Denmark and one in Sweden. 1 Introdu tion