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PubMed1991

User-friendly image processing software tools: general purpose features and application to the correlation of PET-CT brain images.

An interactive software package, performing some useful general purpose image processing operations and being used as a tool for the problem of the anatomical correlation of PET brain images, is under development. The software is developed as a comprehensive tool with a graphic user-interface allowing the display of the processed images through the use of a variety of colormaps. The implemented routines perform a lot of processing operations on the images: a) Local image processing, i.e. smoothing and sharpening, contours extraction, interactive expansion, shrinking and thresholding of the gray scale, histogram equalization. b) ROI handling, i.e., ROI drawing and computing, transformation of an image to a ROI, ROI editing. c) Additional operators include frequency space image processing such as FFT.

Brain↗
PubMed1991

Teaching problem handling in general practice: a computer assisted learning software package for medical students.

A computer assisted learning software package for medical students, EnMesh, designed to increase understanding of the problem-handling skills needed in general practice has been developed at the University of Liverpool. Users access the system anonymously and respond in sequence to problems in the form of clinical vignettes. Responses to each problem, in the form of up to six two-line text statements, are generated by the user with a simple word processing facility. Users compare their responses with those of established general practitioners, searching for similar or matching ideas. After completing not less than four problems users are provided with feedback on their performance in relation to the physical, psychological and social dimensions of the problems. The frequency with which the system is being used and the results of self scoring are monitored by a parallel teacher programme. The programmes are designed to run on a wide range of microcomputers. EnMesh was designed to provide an informal learning resource within an established clinical course. The challenge of valid problems, the option to respond anonymously, self scoring and feedback on performance are features designed to attract student participation in computer assisted learning. Although in EnMesh the expert data is categorized in three dimensions, in designing such software the number of categories is limited solely by the range of responses which feedback is required to reflect.

Computer-Assisted Instruction↗
PubMed1991

Drug interactions software programs.

The value of a computer application is usually dependent on the program's ability to store, rearrange, and retrieve information in a format that is useful to the computer user. Based on a list of drugs (input), drug interactions programs search their databases for possible interactions between each drug pair in the input list. An output list specifies pairs of drugs that potentially interact. Since each program uses its own information database, results may differ slightly among programs. In general, however, the screen menus, appearance of the programs, and the "extras" included in each program differ more than the programs' drug interactions output. The software programs tested are all easy to use. Each of the three drug interactions programs reviewed has unique features that may appeal to certain users. The Medical Letter Drug Interactions Program is the least costly and provides the most academic output, allowing users to view citations for each specific interaction. The PDR Drug Interactions and Side Effects software includes a side effects index that allows either searching of a drug, which produces a list of the drug's side effects, or searching of a specific side effect, which produces a list of drugs associated with that side effect. Drug Interactions III is the only program that allows users to add drug interactions to its database.

Databases, Factual↗
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[Documentation and maintenance of "intra-muros" developed software].

In a Pharmaceutical Industry Research Center requirements in statistics and data processing are: data acquisition and management, clinical trials management, clinical trials accomplishment, computation and statistics. Authors explain the choice they have made to develop softwares by themselves. They review software functions and insist on maintenance and documentation and also on internal education procedures necessary for their implementation and using.

Clinical Trials as Topic↗
PubMed1991

1991 SDR Awards of Excellence. The most popular application software.

The 1991 SDR Awards of Excellence honor those vendors whose software applications are given the highest ratings by users. For the second year in a row, Shared Data Research, Hudson, OH, asked hospitals' software users to nominate the best products in 18 different application categories.

Awards and Prizes↗
PubMed1990

[Present level of software production for the use of microcomputers, PCh's and terminals in the stomatology of the GDR].

The informatics team of the Stomatological Society of the GDR provides a complete list of presently available program packages for home, 8 and 16-bit computers and a list of the programming teams. Main developments for the use of PC's in stomatology are described as well. By establishing clear lines for the development of software, standardized user software can be guaranteed.

Dental Instruments↗
PubMed1989

[Software for record reporting and filing with the personal computer].

During the past four years the authors have been gaining experience in reporting radiological examinations by personal computer. Today they describe the project of a new software which allows the reporting and filing of roentgenograms. This program was realized by a radiologist, using a well known data base management system: dBASE III. The program was shaped to fit the radiologist's needs: it helps to report, and allows to file, radiological data, with the diagnostic codes used by the American College of Radiology. In this paper the authors describe the data base structure and indicate the software functions which make its use possible. Thus, this paper is not aimed at advertising a new reporting program, but at demonstrating how the radiologist can himself manage some aspects of his work with the help of a personal computer.

Database Management Systems↗
PubMed1989

[The physician and the computer. 26. Commercial software].

The authors give an account of different types of commercially supplied programmes which can be used also in the health services. They discuss the properties and types of different software - data base programmes, text processors, graphic and statistical programmes and finally so-called integrated software along with data on possible mutual combinations. At the same time also general conditions for the application of these programmes within the framework of clinical informations systems are discussed incl. their advantages and short-comings.

Medical Informatics↗
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A review guide for computer assisted testing software.

This article describes a tool that delineates guidelines for critiquing computer software programs designed to create test banks, develop tests, administer tests to examinees, and/or provide analysis of performance of items, tests, and/or examinees. The tool identifies features that are unique to computer applications in educational testing, including principles of measurement and evaluation, criteria that are not included in available forms for the review of educational software.

Education, Nursing↗
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How to use word processing software to conduct content analysis.

Nurses' interest and involvement in qualitative research methods has increased in recent years. Researchers who use these methods often find data analysis time-consuming and tedious. Word processing software available for personal computers can provide an efficient and organized way to accomplish qualitative data analysis used in grounded theory, ethnographic, phenomenologic, and historic research. This article describes how to transcribe interviews and create files for analysis with WordStar software.

Humans↗
PubMed1988

[Signal processing by analog/digital conversion using personal computers. II: Selection of hardware and software].

Hard- and software components offered by different manufacturers are compared with regard to applicability within clinical research projects. The fact that hard- and software have to communicate intensively during A/D conversion is given special attention, and the resulting guidelines for the selection of components are discussed. Accessing converted data from customized evaluation programs, as well as concepts of data transfer to a mainframe are covered in separate sections.

Analog-Digital Conversion↗
PubMed1988

The Nucleic Acid Blot Analyzer II. ANALYZE, an image analysis software package for molecular biology.

The Nucleic Acid Blot Analyzer, a new instrument providing high-speed imaging of 32P labeled nucleic acids, captures, stores and presents images in digital form, thus lending itself to rapid data handling and analysis as well as replacing conventional X-ray film autoradiography for many applications. A software package called ANALYZE has been specifically designed for the instrument in order to provide automatic or semi-automatic analysis for molecular biological techniques. The software includes image display manipulation, quantitative and positional analysis, as well as file maintenance utilities. The specific application of the software/hardware to various techniques is presented.

Molecular Biology↗
PubMed1988

Design of clinical database management systems and associated software to facilitate medical statistical research.

Clinical databases are growing rapidly. The clinical database is heavily used for medical research in many settings. This paper discusses design features for medical databases that facilitate their use for research. The database management system should allow complex data structures, have a syntax-facilitating collection of longitudinal data, interface with major statistical software packages, allow an extensive data dictionary, conveniently merge files, facilitate archival documentation, have an associated data entry system that allows complex logical checking, and have coordinated mainframe and microcomputer software.

Biometry↗
PubMed1986

[Automated diagnosis--new possibilities through user-specific software].

After four years of development and testing, we have devised a software system especially adapted to the recording, storage and monitoring of radiological findings. After full implementation of this system, sufficient practical experience has been collected for effecting a comprehensive assessment. The qualitative and quantitative aspects of a discipline-specific software are described in detail and can be used for comparison with other EDP systems. The two essential criteria for the practicability and acceptance of a system for automatized collection and recording of findings are a short interaction time at the input terminal and a high degree of logical and reference flexibility enabling individual formulation and patient-related specificity of the textual formulation of findings comparable with conventional sound dictation. By means of interlinking of information with other processing programmes it becomes possible to continue data processing for each case in both administrative and research aspects after a single input operation of patient and examination data.

Computers↗
PubMed1987

Developing drug-use indicators with a computerized drug database and a personal computer software package.

The use of a multihospital drug- and patient-database system, a personal computer (PC), and a standard PC software package to monitor drug-use indicators is described, and a five-step method for analyzing a set of data is presented. An integrated spread-sheet, database, and graphics program (Lotus 1-2-3), which is compatible with an IBM PC, can manipulate data obtained from a multihospital database system. To demonstrate the utility of this system, a previously published procedure for analyzing drug-use indicators (e.g., length of stay, drug cost per patient, number of drugs received) for patients in two diagnosis-related groups was repeated using the database and PC software. The records of patients in each DRG were randomly selected from the database. The following steps were applied to the data: (1) data (as a whole) were characterized statistically, (2) data were examined to identify subgroups of interest, (3) groups of data were characterized statistically and compared with each other, (4) the effect of changing the characteristics of one or more subgroups was predicted, and (5) the results of the data manipulations were presented in tables and graphs. A multihospital database can serve as a source for obtaining large quantities of hospital-specific data. These data can be manipulated and presented in tabular or graphic form on a personal computer and used by hospitals to monitor various drug-use indicators.

Data Display↗
PubMed1985

Microcomputers in nursing administration. A software overview.

The current environment of prospective payment systems and cost control requires nursing administrators to have fast access to useful, reliable information. Microcomputers can be used by individuals who are not computer experts to generate that information. This article discusses the various types of computer software used on microcomputers and gives examples of nursing administration applications for microcomputer software.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1985

Neonatal data base and automated discharge summary using a personal computer and proprietary software.

A computerized neonatal data base and a program to develop automated neonatal discharge summaries were developed using a personal computer and proprietary software. The system has been relatively inexpensive, simple to operate, and easy to expand. The current program can produce a discharge summary in less than five minutes, as well as provide detailed summary statistics regarding patients admitted to the intensive care facility. The personal computer and proprietary software are a cost-effective mechanism of improving efficiency in obtaining neonatal statistics and discharge summaries.

Computers↗