Abstract
A patient's computer for medical information should contain information aimed at effectively managing all data in the patients database. However, it is not cost effective to line up each instrument to scan the various medical data in different media simultaneos-ly, and even if instruments are connected, it requires too much time to scan each data image, CT, Echo, MRI, Endoscope, etc. We have introduced a computer-compatible still video medical image capturing system to resolve these problems. The new system consists of a still video camera and a personal computer with a full-color, video digitizer board and a 32 bit CPU. The still video camera can take a 1/15 to 30 second exposure that is controlled as an NTSC signal, and the image data is highly compatible to these machines. The still video system controls the taking of medical images and the computer controls the capture of image from the vide system. Introduction of the still video system releases us from these problems. There are also other advantages : This system can be used for preoperative conferences, to illustrate explanations for the patient's family after a surgical operation, and to lecture to medical students. The system is also able to capture micro findings on a plate through a CC D camera attached to a microscope and manage these image data captured by the computer as an image database.
