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A key advantage in the conversion from film-based to digital radiology is the possibility of a long-term on line electronic archival of patient studies. The popular approach based on optical disk jukeboxes for the long-term archive and magnetic disk storage for data caching is not economically attractive because of the cost of both the jukebox and the medium. Strategies for extending the archival system design with a tape jukebox have been studied. The proposed strategy calls for the use of high-ratio lossy compression together with low-cost tape storage to make long-term on line archiving more affordable. An intelligent prefetching algorithm based on hospital information system and radiologic information system triggers, which in turn are augmented by manual case preparation, can effectively overcome the longer latency of ad hoc retrievals. This longer latency is caused by both system-level bottlenecks and the sequential access constraint of the tape drive. Strategies for image clustering and tape allocation by patient classification also enhance retrieval efficiency. This archival design using image compression, prefetching, and clustering could be implemented in many of the existing teleradiology and picture archiving and communication systems.
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Supported by National Institutes of Health Grant No. PO1 CA51198 “PACS in Radiology”; and the Department of Radiological Sciences (B.H., R.T., W.C., L.H., H.S.) and the Department of Computer Sciences (R.S.), University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ho, B., Chao, W., Sadri, R. et al. Data clustering and other archive retrieval strategies for teleradiology and picture archiving and communication systems. J Digit Imaging 8, 180–190 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03168717
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