CADe System Integrated within the Electronic Health Record

Abstract EN

The latest technological advances and information support systems for clinics and hospitals produce a wide range of possibilities in the storage and retrieval of an ever-growing amount of clinical information as well as in detection and diagnosis.

In this work, an Electronic Health Record (EHR) combined with a Computer Aided Detection (CADe) system for breast cancer diagnosis has been implemented.

Our objective is to provide to radiologists a comprehensive working environment that facilitates the integration, the image visualization, and the use of aided tools within the EHR.

For this reason, a development methodology based on hardware and software system features in addition to system requirements must be present during the whole development process.

This will lead to a complete environment for displaying, editing, and reporting results not only for the patient information but also for their medical images in standardised formats such as DICOM and DICOM-SR.

As a result, we obtain a CADe system which helps in detecting breast cancer using mammograms and is completely integrated into an EHR.