Incorporating Novel Image Processing Methods In A Hospital-Wide Pacs

We claim that integration of new and even experimental methods for image processing and analysis into a routine PACs is not only needed to enhance the functionality of that PACs, but also to foster introduction of those image processing methods into clinical routine. From that latter perspective it must be possible to incorporate such methods without requiring specific developments from the side of the PACs provider. In this paper we discuss some of the possibilities and difficulties. We illustrate those using initial examples of integration of image processing, by a university hospital, into a commercial PACs in routine hospital-wide operation. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.