General purpose medical digital library definition

GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2599v1
Subject Areas
Bioinformatics, Computer Vision, Digital Libraries, Software Engineering
Keywords
• Medical imaging, mobile devices, digital medical tool, cross-platform medical imaging
Copyright
© 2016 Rocha-Pereira et al.
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Cite this article
Rocha-Pereira T, Lopes-Santos JA, Martins ACL. 2016. General purpose medical digital library definition. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2599v1

Abstract

The need of an approach for the definition of a platform-independent medical digital library, using only open-source tools, will be described. To test the need and the success of such an approach, a library will be created, which can later be used in a larger scale as a general purpose digital medical tool, when comes the need to evaluate an image. As a first test, the library will be used in the development of a tool aimed to aid doctors in otoplasty candidates’ evaluation. This tool shall be developed and tested first on a mobile platform, so the potential of the developed library can be tested on the most adverse situation. Also, the resulting library will be license free, making easier the collaboration of others in development and integration with other software, translating in a better spread of the library in medical practice

Author Comment

This is the first version of a paper that will be part of a conference poster presentation.