Remote Patient Management in a Mammographic Screening Environment in Underserved Areas

Abstract

Early detection of breast cancer is of significant interest to our society. Mammographic screening is gradually moving toward a "distributed acquisition centralized review" approach. Unfortunately, a relatively high recall rate using this approach increases patient anxiety as well as the cost and complexity of the diagnostic process. The purpose of this project is to evaluate in a multi-phase project the possible impact of a unique telemammography system that utilizes common carriers with wavelet-based data compression for image transmission on the recall rate in remote locations where physicians are not available during mammographic procedures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA411515

Entities

People

  • David Gur

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Biomedical Research
  • Breast Cancer
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Data Compression
  • Databases
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Personnel
  • Neural Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Physicians

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Theoretical Analysis.