Rui YuKimmy Lin

Heri MariwaXuedong Chen

© 2004 GODS Team

GODS Project

What is GODS?

Graphical Oncology Diagnostic System

A tool to help physicians to diagnose patients based on medical images build personal libraries for educational purpose communicate medical knowledge

More than just a tool…

Where does the idea come from? Dr. Kevin Hughes from MGH Surgical Director of Avon Foundation Assistant Professor of Surgery in

Harvard Medical School

Dr. Ethan Bolker from UMB Ph.D of Mathematics from Harvard U

niversity Esteemed Professor in CS Departmen

t at UMass Boston

What was the problem?

Dr. Hughes’ Daily Operation

Step 3: Carefully hit PrintScreen

Step 1: Open a mammogram image

Step 4: Open up good-old Paint

Step 5: Ctr-VStep 6: Ctr-S

Step 2: Decide where the bad stuff is

What was the problem? – cont.

Dr. Hughes’ Daily Operation

Step 7: Open annotation template in Word

Step 8: Insert the image

Step 9: Trying very hard to remember where the bad stuff is

Step a: Annotate the image

Step b: Match up the patient

Step c: Ctr-S

What was the problem? – cont.

Algorithm for tedious and cumbersome operationif (yourGoal == Goal.JustToGetBy)

keepWastingTime();

else if (yourGoal == Goal.SaveTime)buyAutomationTool();

else if (yourGoal == Goal.SaveTime&Money)getUMBStudentsToWriteTheTool();

elsefindAnotherJob();

How does GODS solve the problem?

Dr. Happier Hughes’ Daily Operation

Step 3: Load a mammogram image

Step 1: Open GODS

Step 4: Decide where the bad stuff is

Step 5: Annotate the image

Step 6: Hit Save button

Step 2: Select patient record

How does GODS solve the problem?

6 versus C steps

More accurate diagnosis

More efficient operation

More time for Dr. Hughes to spend time with his family instead of playing with PrintScreen and Paint Demo later

What will GODS do in the future?

Automate the diagnosis Embedded oncology detection feature

More than just Oncology Orthopedics Dentistry Plastic Cosmetic Surgery General Surgery

What will GODS do in the future?

Networking HIPAA (United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ) Focus on hospital intranet Start with image-only internet

No full-face or comparable images

Interfacing inter-hospital collaboration Internet Security Technology

Who is going to use it?

Almost 6000 hospitals registered with American Hospital Association in US

Countless hospitals around the world

Medical Schools / Institutions

Individual Medical Practitioner

What is in the market already?

Soundbound Software Deal with medical images, patient records,

X-rays and insurance and healthcare forms Highly restricted by HIPAA Heavy investment in Internet Security

GODS’s advantage Concentrate on medical images and

records Less restricted by HIPAA easier to

deploy

What is in the market already?

LEADTOOLS Medical Technology Deal with various format of medical

images processing and annotations

GODS’s advantage Link medical images with patient

records Provide more diagnostic / educational

values Medical knowledge can be easily found

and communicated

What is in the market already?

DigiSoft reViewMD Desktop Deal with medical images processing and

annotations Image transmission via email or fax

GODS’s advantage Provide database technology to

accumulate and manage medical knowledge

Provide more educational values

What is in the market already?

Most of them are not designed for Automated Diagnosis Intranet Deployment / Networking

Those that have automated diagnosis are proprietary that come with expensive gears Those that have communication features are not designed for networking Those that have networking focus on the internet and are constrained heavily by HIPAA

Why should you trust us?

Ph. D. candidate in Computer Science at UMass Boston

Xuedong Chen

MS in Information Systems at NortheasternSpecialized in Data Warehousing and Computational Theory

Tech GURU

Why should you trust us?

Graduate Student in Computer Science at UMass Boston

Heri Mariwa

BA in Mathematics and Computer Science at Bemidji State University, Minnesota

Specializes in Database and Visual Attention Application

Why should you trust us?

Graduate Student in Computer Science at UMass Boston

Kimmy Lin

BA in Business Administration at National Taiwan University Specializes in web applications and Web Services security

Why should you trust us?

Graduate Student in Computer Science at UMass Boston

Rui Yu

BA in Electronic Engineering (Beijing China) Specializes in enterprise applications and J2EE technology

How are we going to do it?

Heri will tell you!

What is our schedule?

GODS Version Release Date

1.0 Image Annotation 11/09/041.1 Mammogram Processing End of 2004

1.2 Automated Diagnosis End of Feb. 05

1.3 Multi-User End of Mar. 05

2.0 Networking End of May 05

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