Project Summary

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Project Summary
Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied
ResearchInstitute for Logistics and Production
Systems Information Technology Department H-3519
Miskolctapolca, Iglói u. 2., Hungary informatika_at_b
zlogi.huhttp//www.bzlogi.hu

• Medical Decision-Support SystemBased on Image
  Processing for theEarly Detection of Breast
  Cancer

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Project details

• Name of the project
• Development of a medical decision support and
  archiving system based on image processing, which
  intends to make use of the results of research on
  artificial intelligence in the early detecting
  and differentiating of breast cancer and in the
  monitoring of treatment results
• Date
• Start date of the project 20/02/2002
• Estimated end of the project 26/09/2003
• Consortium members
• Bay Zoltán Foundation (Zoltán Hoffman)
• International Medical Center (dr Zoltán Katona)

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Why...

• The aim of the project
• To develop a medical decision-support system
  based on image processing and artificial
  intelligence methods
• To create Pathological Data Warehouse
• The importance of early diagnoses
• For the patient More chance for recovery
• For the hospital The total cost of the treatment
  is significantly reduced

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System layout...
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Data sources...
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Steps taken...

• Creating the logical and physical system plan
• Defining the relevant groups of information
  (information to get by image processing,
  questionnaires, etc.)
• Determining the image processing algorithms
• Developing and testing the image processing
  module
• Designing the central data warehouse and its user
  interface

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Steps taken ...

• Configuring and using the databases with test
  data sets
• Datamining
• Developing and testing the artificial
  intelligence module
• Linking the modules together, testing and fixing
• Creating user interfaces and documentations

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An image to be processed...