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Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Computer applications, Image manipulation / Reconstruction, CAD, Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis, Statistics, Education and training, Epidemiology
Authors:
H. Müller1, E. Kotter2; 1Sierre/CH, 2Freiburg/DE
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2015/C-1335
Background
Definition: Generally,
semantics is he study of meaning.
Related to radiology,
semantics denotes the study of the content or meaning of radiology reports,
or – in a larger sense – of the content and meaning of images used in radiology.
An image is worth a thousand words is often said and even more true is the phrase that an image can be described in a thousand different ways.
Even in radiology where many things including the image creation are fairly standardized there are many ways for describing the content of an image,
including synonyms,
various levels of description and a focus of different persons on varying details.
This is not necessarily a problem when single images are regarded for single patients.
With the exploding amount of images being created and information overload in many fields of radiology it will become essential to have automated decision support in the future and have tools to sort content and prepare structured reporting as much as possible in an automated way [1] to increase efficiency in radiology and assure quality across different persons making sure that each one understands the reports of other persons.