| Linköping University | | | Dept. of Biomedical Engineering | | | Medical Informatics |
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ResearchThe overall purpose of systems developed in the field of medical informatics is to extract and present clinically relevant information. Medical information appears in many different forms: Text, Parameters,Value Measurements, Time Courses, Images, Volumes, Image and Volume Sequences. Methods to attain new types of information is continuously being developed and the detail and quality of recorded data is increasing rapidly. Huge amounts of potentially relevant information can be tied to one single patient. In addition it is necessary to be able to integrate and analyze information from a large number of patients and time instances.
This development has led to a situation where we are at risk of
drowning in the overwhelming flow of information. To be able to
extract the relations that are pertinent in a given situation and to
present them in a way that is simple to understand is rapidly becoming
the main problem. Efficient solutions of this problem will be crucial
components in future health care. To develop principles and methods
for such solutions is the goal the research in the field of medical
informatics. In particular the research group focuses on the
development of systems for medical decision support and medical image
analysis. |
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Editor:
Johanna Pettersson
Last update: Wednesday, 02-May-2007 16:29:43 MEST |
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