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In recent years, breast cancer has risen as a leading
cancerous disease among women. Breast cancer has very high
survival rate if it can be detected in early stage. Compared
with other tools, mammography is an effective and reliable
diagnostic tool for the preventive examination of breast cancer
so far. In America and Europe, many large scale hospitals have
already begun todigitize the conventional film based mammograms
through the aid of computerizedmedical image information
processing techniques. But, the researches of digitalmammography
are at the beginning stage in our country. The goal of this
research is to establish a multimedia database systemof X-ray
mammograms on local area network(LAN) by using client/server
architecture. A prototype of image browser for the application
of X-ray mammograms is implemented by using the object-oriented
approach. It providesthe radiologists with not only patients'
pathological diagnosis, but alsopatients' operative findings
dynamically from any connected personal computer(PC) or
workstation of the LAN. In this research, we firstly survey
thefunctions and applications of Hospital Information System(
HIS), Radiology Information System(RIS) and Picture Archiving
and Communication System(PACS)for the references of the system
design. We hope the proposed system will be obtained maximum
effectiveness for those hospitals with a guidance of investing
the medical equipment and manpower by setting up the digital
mammography environment. Thus, a great promotion with better
cure in the preventive examination and the computer-aided
diagnosis of the breast cancer will be established.
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