Week 5 and 6

Week 5 and 6

 Lecture 

Overview

Medical Data, Processing, E-Prescribing and PACS

Medical Data is the gathering of medical data and interpreting their meaning is central to providing healthcare to patients.

Processing  can only be done by humans as computers can only process the data and serve and complement humans beings but not replace them.

E-Prescribing aims to replace paper-based prescriptions scripts so that their is an improvement in patient safety by reducing prescibing and administration errors.

PACS are computers, commonly servers, dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images.

Tutorial  

In week 5 we did not have a tutorial and we were asked to work on assignment 2 and in week 6 we talked about England’s National Health Service plans for fully integrating an IT infrastructure into the current workflow practice.

 Practical

In week 5 we did not have a practical and we were asked to work on assignment 2. In week 6 practical we were given the opportunity to work with some MRI recordings and asked to complete questions using MatLab. I have taken a few questions that i was given and inserted into this weeks blog with the answers.

Question : What is a Voxel and what is the Voxel size in this set of images?

“A voxel (volumetric pixel or, more correctly, Volumetric Picture Element) is a volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space. This is analogous to a pixel, which represents 2D image data in a bitmap (which is sometimes referred to as a pixmap).”  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel)

voxel_size =

    0.8594
    0.8594
    3.0000

 Question : What is the width of the skull in this image?

Answer = 173

Answer = 180

 Assignments

In week 5 and 6 i worked on assignment 2 that is due for 5th November.

 

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