A Web-Enabled Research Database with Image Recognition

Dr. Rodney Roentgen is studying a series of films for a new patient with achondroplasia. The pelvis is typical of the disorder but there are some unusual features in the hands. Dr. Roentgen would like to determine if there are X-ray images on file with these features for any other patient that has been seen by the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry. Using the traditional approach, Dr. Roentgen would have to manually inspect thousands of other X-ray films to try and find a match. With the use of stored database images, Knowledge-Based Retrieval data elements and the Oracle Visual Information Retrieval (VIR) cartridge, this searching process can be greatly streamlined,