Medical imaging informatics refers to the application of information technology to medical imaging. It involves tasks like digital image acquisition, processing, display, storage, archiving, computer networking, and image transmission. Biomedical imaging uses techniques like X-rays, CT, PET, ultrasound, optical and MRI imaging to non-invasively examine the structure and function of living bodies. Medical imaging informatics is a subfield of radiology that manages digital images and allows sharing of images over computer networks for improved patient care and research.

1. MEDICAL IMAGING
INFORMATICS
Prepared By: M.C. SALVADOR, RRT

2. INFORMATICS
• Derived from the term “ information” – refers to a useful,
meaningful, and organized data.
• COMPUTER – convert the data into information,
computer application in medical imaging includes
modalities such as CR, DR, DM, and DF
• INFORMATICS REFERS TO THE PROCESS OF CHANGING
DATA INTO INFORMATION

3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• A general term that describes technology that helps
to produced, manipulate, store, communicate, and/
or disseminate information (Williams, 2007)
• Involves the used of two major technology :
computer technology and communication
technology.

4. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
• Deals with the structure and functions and how
it can be used to solved problems
• COMPUTER – made up of software and
hardware
• FUNDAMENTAL OPERATION: input, processing,
storage, output and communications

5. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
• Deals with the use of electromagnetic
devices and systems for communicating
over long distances.
• Consist of the following key elements:
Modem, communication media and
communication network

6. MODEM
• MOdulate – DEModulate: used to send
and receive signals from a computer by
converting digital signal into analog
signal

8. COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA
• Used for data transmission
• Includes : coaxial cables, fiber optics,
microwave, satellite transmission and
protocols
• DICOM is an example of one standard
used in medical imaging to address in
communication of images

10. COMMUNICATION NETWORK
• The technology area which deals with
communication through computer system is
called COMPUTER NETWORKING
• Types of network: LAN, MAN, WAN
• LAN : LOCAL AREA NETWORK : computer
network that spans in a relatively small area,
usually established in a building

11. COMMUNICATION NETWORK
MAN: METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK
• Covers geographical area larger than LAN
• A computer network, extending over a large
geographical area such as an urban area and
providing integraded communication services
such as data, voice, and video (IEEE, 2002)
• Usually established in a campus or city and
connects LANS using high – speed backbones

12. COMMUNICATION NETWORK
WAN : WIDE AREA NETWORK
• Covers large geographic area
• Consist of nodes located in a state,
province, country and even worldwide
• Usually connected over the telephone
carriers

13. HEALTH CARE INFOMATICS/ MEDICAL
INFORMATICS

14. MEDICAL INFORMATICS
• An interdisciplinary science underlying
the acquisition, maintenance, retrieval
and application of biomedical
knowledge and information to improve
patient care, medical information, and
health science research.

15. HEALTH CARE INFOMATICS
• Application of IT to healthcare is
referred to as health informatics/
medical informatics
• The practice of information and
knowledge management across clinical
healthcare and public health domain.

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Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical informatics (BMI) is
the interdisciplinary field that
studies and pursues the effective
uses of biomedical data,
information, and knowledge for
scientific inquiry, problem solving,
and decision making, motivated
by efforts to improve human
health.

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Biomedical Informatics:
Corollaries to the Definition
1. BMI develops, studies and applies
theories, methods and processes
for the generation, storage, retrieval,
use, and sharing of biomedical data,
information, and knowledge.
2. BMI builds on computing,
communication and information
sciences and technologies and their
application in biomedicine.

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Biomedical Informatics:
Corollaries to the Definition
3. BMI investigates and supports reasoning, modeling,
simulation, experimentation and translation across
the spectrum from molecules to populations, dealing
with a variety of biological systems, bridging basic
and clinical research and practice, and the healthcare
enterprise.
4. BMI, recognizing that people are the ultimate users of
biomedical information, draws upon the social and
behavioral sciences to inform the design and
evaluation of technical solutions and the evolution of
complex economic, ethical, social, educational, and
organizational systems.

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20. Biomedical Informatics in Perspective
Basic Research
Applied Research
And Practice
Biomedical Informatics Methods,
Techniques, and Theories
Bioinformatics
Clinical
Informatic
s
Imaging
Informatic
s
Public Health
Informatics
Biomedical Informatics ≠ Bioinformatics

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Interdisciplinary Nature of
Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical
Informatics
Cognitive Science
& Decision Making
Management
Sciences
Clinical
Sciences
Basic Biomedical
Sciences
Epidemiology
And Statistics
Bioengineering
Computer
Science
(hardware)
Computer
Science
(software)

22. Biomedical Informatics in Perspective
Basic Research
Applied Research
And Practice
Biomedical Informatics Methods,
Techniques, and Theories
Imaging
Informatic
s
Clinical
Informatics
Bioinformatics
Public Health
Informatics
Molecular and
Cellular
Processes
Tissues and
Organs
Individuals
(Patients)
Populations
And Society
Biomedical Informatics ≠ Health Informatics
Health Informatics

23. Biomedical Informatics in Perspective
Basic Research
Applied Research
And Practice
Biomedical Informatics Methods,
Techniques, and Theories
Imaging
Informatic
s
Clinical
Informatics
Bioinformatics
Public Health
Informatics
Molecular and
Cellular
Processes
Tissues and
Organs
Individuals
(Patients)
Populations
And SocietyContinuum with “Fuzzy” Boundaries
Biomolecular
Imaging
Consumer
Health
Pharmaco-
genomics

24. Biomedical Informatics in Perspective
Basic Research
Applied Research
And Practice
Biomedical Informatics Methods,
Techniques, and Theories
Imaging
Informatic
s
Clinical
Informatics
Bioinformatics
Public Health
Informatics
Molecular and
Cellular
Processes
Tissues and
Organs
Individuals
(Patients)
Populations
And SocietyContinuum with “Fuzzy” Boundaries
Clinical
Translational
Science

26. BMI and HIT
Biomedical Informatics
Training, Research and
Development
• Academia
• Research Institutes
• Corporate Research Labs
Clinical Systems Companies
Academic Medical Centers
Hospitals, Health
Systems, Practices,
Healthcare Industry
Biomedical Research
Community
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27. HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• Information system is a computer based
system used to collect and process data to
provide its users with information needed for
problem solving and decision making

28. HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
• 2 Major component systems:
CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM

29. CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
• Uses computers to manage clinical
information, this information includes
medical history and other relevant
information, which helps health care
personnel make decision

30. Laboratory Information system (LIS)
• Uses computer to manage lab test and
lab result
• LIS provide a standard for the delivery
of real time laboratory result to an
electronic health record

31. Nursing Information System
• The used of computer to improve
nursing care by managing charting, staff
scheduling and the integration of
clinical information

32. Pharmacy Information System
• Monitor drug allergies and interactions
and fill and track prescription
• Track inventory and create patient drug
profiles

33. Radiology Information System
• Manage patients in radiology
department including scheduling
appointments, tracking film and
reporting result
• The RIS allows the adding of images to a
patient’s electronic record by
interacting with the EMR

34. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM
• Include information systems dealing with
registration, scheduling, financial payroll
and human resources

35. Financial Information system
• Concerned with the financial details of
running a hospital.
• These include payroll, patient accounting
(all charges that a patient generates as an
inpatient or outpatient), accounts payable,
accounts receivable, assets, claims, and
contract management

36. PICTURE ARCHIVING AND
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
• Manage digital image
• Allows digital image to be immediately
available on the monitor and can be shared
over a network
• Can enhance images and eliminate film
• Standard protocol of imaging devices DICOM

37. MEDICAL IMAGING INFORMATICS

38. MEDICAL IMAGING INFORMATICS
• Application of IT in medical imaging
• A subdiscipline in radiology that includes task such as
digital image acquisition, digital image processing
and image display, image storage and archiving ,
computer networking, and image transmission

39. BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
• Biomedical imaging involves the
complex chain of acquiring, processing,
and visualizing structural or functional
images of living objects or systems,
including extraction and processing of
image-related information.

40. BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
• Biomedical imaging has developed from
early, simple uses of X-rays for diagnosis of
fractures and detection of foreign
bodies into a compendium of powerful
techniques, not only for patient care but
also for the study of biological
structure and function, and for addressing
fundamental questions in biomedicine.

41. BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
• Technological developments in digital
radiography, X-ray computed tomography(CT),
nuclear (including positron emission
tomography (PET)), ultrasound, optical
and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have
produced a spectrum of methods for
interrogating intact 3-dimensional bodies non-
invasively. A variety of new microscopies has also
flourished, making use of novel phenomena such
as non-linear photon interactions and the sensing
of atomic forces at surfaces.