Authors' objectives:

This report is in response to a request by the Cardiology Department of the Lariboisiere hospital to investigate the transmission of dynamic coronary angiography images within and between hospitals.

Authors' recommendations: NB The following recommendation was developed exclusively for the Chief Executive Officer of the AP-HP, the public hospital network of Paris area, for his use as an aid in the decision making process. In any other context, it should be considered nothing more than an element of information. The study carried out by the Cardiology Department of the Lariboisiere hospital has provided clinical validation of the irreversible compression of coronary angiography images to a factor of 8. The evaluation of stenoses from real images would be a useful complement to simulation studies. However, it should be noted that very rapid progress in technology will make image compression less and less necessary for the real-time reading of coronary angiographs from CD. It is still useful for the network transmission of images and as an interim phase in reading CDs. It may be useful to be able to transmit coronary angiography images within the hospital, depending on how the various AP-HP Cardiology departments are organised. The CEDIT does not wish to give any opinion about interhospital transmission, since any such project must form part of an organisation, which has not yet been clearly defined, of cardiology discipline in the AP-HP.

Project Status: Completed

URL for project: http://cedit.aphp.fr/

Year Published: 1998

English language abstract: An English language summary is available

Publication Type: Not Assigned

Organisation Name: Cellule Innovation of the AP-HP

Copyright: Comite d'Evaluation et de Diffusion des Innovations Technologiques