Web Based Picture Archiving and Communication System for Medical Images

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) enable many Hospitals around the world to organize and distribute their radiology imagery. Services provided by PACS establish a platform for the diagnosis of different diseases. In this paper we discuss the implementation and performance results of a web-based PACS named WEBSERVEX developed under a cooperative effort between the Autonomous University of Queretaro (UAQ) and the Mexican Corporation of Radiology (CMR). WEBSERVEX presents a set of tools that allow radiologist to manipulate and annotate images using a popular format called DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine). The web-based system has been successfully installed and it is currently in use.