Items Tagged ‘HealthImaging’
October 3, 2012
Smartphone Evaluation an Effective Tool for Telestroke Network
Medical images viewed on smartphones can be effectively used to remotely evaluate stroke patients through telemedicine, according to a study published online ahead of print in Stroke. The study, from researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, was the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a real-world telestroke network. “Smartphones are […]
Tags: Dr Bart Demaerschalk, HealthImaging, Smartphones, Telemedicine, teleradiology applications
July 30, 2012
CT Paves the Way to More Accurate Kidney Stone Volume Estimates
Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed a method of estimating kidney stone volume using CT images that offers significantly improved accuracy compared with threshold-based methods, according to a study published online July 23 in the Journal of Urology. “We proposed a volume estimation method based on an adaptive threshold segmentation method and a correction for the […]
Tags: CT images, HealthImaging, Journal of Urology, kidney stone, Xinhui Duan