Abstract. To commemorate the SPIE Medical Imaging 50th anniversary, this article provides a brief review of the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and Informatics conferences. Important topics and advances, contributing researchers from both academia and industry, and key papers are noted.

SPIE Medical Imaging 50th anniversary: history of the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Conference

With the recent advances in medical diagnostic imaging technology, the need for an integrated display/processing station is becoming increasingly essential. This paper presents the architecture of a system that could effectively be used in the analysis of imagery derived from varying disciplines. This system has the ability not only to display multiple images at a high-resolution (1280x1024), but also provides the capability of interactive processing any of the displayed images. With extensive built-in graphics features and real-time pixel processing functions, this system would be a very viable component of a PACS environment.

D. Racionzer

Papers

A Multimodality Image Display And Image Processing System