Arthemis: Annotation software in an integrated capturing and analysis system for colonoscopy

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• 作者：Danyu Liu ; Yu Cao ; Ki-Hwan Kim ; Sean Stanek ; Bancha Doungratanaex-Chai ; Kungen Lin ; Wallapak Tavanapong ; Johnny Wong ; JungHwan Oh ; Piet C. de Groen
• 关键词：Colonoscopy ; Medical video databases ; Annotation software ; Image processing
• 刊名：Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：November 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：88
• 期：2
• 页码：152-163
• 全文大小：1684 K

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Colonoscopy is an endoscopic technique that allows physicians to inspect the inside of the human colon. During a colonoscopic procedure, a tiny video camera at the tip of the endoscope generates a video signal of the internal mucosa of the colon. In current practice, the entire colonoscopic procedure is not routinely captured. Software tools providing easy access to important contents of videos that are digitally captured during colonoscopy are not available. Hence, it is very time consuming to review an entire video, locate important contents, annotate them, and extract the annotated contents for research, teaching, and training purposes. Arthemis, a software application, was developed to facilitate this process. For convenient data sharing, Arthemis allows annotation according to the European Gastrointestinal Society for Endoscopy (ESGE) Minimal Standard Terminology (MST), an internationally accepted standard for digestive endoscopy. Arthemis is part of our integrated capturing and content analysis system for colonoscopy called Endoscopic Multimedia Information System (EMIS). This paper presents Arthemis as a component of EMIS, the design and implementation of Arthemis, and key lessons learned from the development process.