Annotation of dicom information: notes from a research project

Today, the management of medical information is related to specific systems of individual hospital wards and this solution does not allow the integration and portability of these information among clinical structures. This is a two pages contribution describing a project that aims to define a general purpose system for the management of clinical information in oncology environment based on the annotation of DICOM images. The system integrates different diagnostic sources to support medical decision in care pathways definition and to facilitate the retrieval of information.