Transactions on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals (ISSN:1868-6451)
Volume 2- Number 1 - September 2010 - Pages 3-18
A Knowledge-based Infrastructure for the Management of Diagnostic Imaging Procedures in the Heart Failure Domain
M. Martinelli, D. Moroni, O. Salvetti and M. Tampucci
Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI),
Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy
Abstract
Within the European HEARTFAID Project, an integrated platform of
services has been developed to assist chronic heart failure
stakeholders in their routine workflow and to provide an optimal
management of heart failure patients, by exploiting the most
advanced technologies, innovative methods for diagnostic data
processing, and significant and up-to-date knowledge, suitably
formalized.
Since signal and imaging investigations are currently a basic step
of the diagnostic, prognostic and follow-up processes of heart
diseases, the platform has been designed so as to include an
advanced system for the management, storage and deployment of the
related heterogeneous information, ranging from the raw data
- consisting in 1D signals, 2D/3D images and image sequences -
to the extracted quantitative parameters and, finally, to their
interpretation.
The purpose of this paper is to describe an effective way to obtain
an integrated management of all the data and transactions across
the distributed repositories necessary to deal with such workflows.
Intelligent knowledge-based services are also provided for assisting
- in a holistic approach - all the decision making processes related
to those data.
In particular, among the several functionalities provided by
HEARTFAID platform, the paper focuses on the integration of
echocardiography workflows. To this end, a suitably developed
standard-compliant IT infrastructure called EchoCardio Lab is
introduced and architectural details of its components are given.
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