TELERADIOLOGY USING INTERNET2 Department of Radiology, College of Medicine and H' Lee Moffitt Cancer

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TELERADIOLOGY USING INTERNET-2Department of
Radiology, College of MedicineandH. Lee Moffitt
Cancer Center and Research Institute

• Robert P. Velthuizen
• Maria Kallergi
• Wei Qian
• Lihua Li
• John J. Heine
• Robert A. Clark

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Research question 1
• Can digital mammography improve breast cancer
  outcomes?
• computer assisted diagnosis enhancement,
  detection, classification, compression.
• underserved population on-line recall
• expert opinion
• Reading patterns of expert mammographers versus
  non-experts
• Research question 2
• Can radiology education be enhanced using central
  or distributed databases?
• Web-based education using teaching files
• Interactive education description of case at
  hand, manual or automatic, find similar cases in
  the teaching database with complete analysis, and
  transmit for comparison.
• Research question 3
• Can multi-center trials be improved using
  internet-2?
• central archiving and evaluation
• central quality assurance and on-line feedback

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RESEARCH PARTNERS

• Uniformed Services University for the Health
  Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland (not yet on
  Inet-2)
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Members of the consortium New Approaches to
  Brain Tumor Therapy (NABTT) (all members but 1 on
  internet-2)
• Members of consortia using the RTQA center at
  Moffitt (e.g. ECOG)

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BENEFITS TO USF

• Enhances USF's profile as a research institution,
  expanding its reputation as a leader in medical
  image processing research
• Encourages research progress and opens up new
  research possibilities
• Increases USF's role as an educational
  institution through distance learning