Digital Image Display Station Performance Requirements Based on Physician Experience with a Prototype System

Paul Fisher; Brent Grover; Gerhard Brauer; Gordon Ritchie

doi:10.1117/12.976468

8 May 1989 Digital Image Display Station Performance Requirements Based on Physician Experience with a Prototype System

Paul Fisher, Brent Grover, Gerhard Brauer, Gordon Ritchie

Proceedings Volume 1091, Medical Imaging III: Image Capture and Display; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976468
Event: Medical Imaging III, 1989, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

The authors report on observations of, and interviews with, physicians using a prototype digital image display and reporting station. While the users generally agree that image quality is clinically satisfactory they are unanimous in their opinion that improvements in the man-machine interface are required before case review by this mechanism is clinically acceptable in a production environment. A model image and information user interface is presented. It was developed in answer to the needs of radiologists and referring physicians operating in the imaging department of a community acute care facility. In such an environment images and related information must be communicated quickly and often simultaneously to different parts of the department and hospital. The user interface to the management system and the management system itself must address the varied functions and the needs of both the medical and clerical staff that perform them. Image enhancement processes, for example, must be restricted to those which quickly provide significantly more perceivable diagnostic information. Little used processes that may occupy significant portions of the display and the console's computing power must be trimmed or eliminated.

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Paul Fisher, Brent Grover, Gerhard Brauer, and Gordon Ritchie "Digital Image Display Station Performance Requirements Based on Physician Experience with a Prototype System", Proc. SPIE 1091, Medical Imaging III: Image Capture and Display, (8 May 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976468

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