State-of-the-art multimedia database research serving medical education and the practice of medicine

Browse, Query, Search and Discover
across Distributed Multimedia Medical Databases
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Enter keywords for a content-based search of videos, images, audio and other medical multimedia forms. You can access medical knowledge bases like UMLS to help with your search. Videos are processed to attach keywords to "logical scenes" within the video. Advanced multimedia research allows you to "search into" any video to find and pull out a short clip from a lengthy video. Browse, view, and play multimedia search results. If you find what you want, download it to your own e-Learning collection. Advanced multimedia research also provides image-processing for image-based query, search and retrieval.

More than access to a searchable multimedia medical library ...
it's multimedia database technology for your own personal collection

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Medical faculty can interactively prepare and deliver multimedia lectures, assignments and exams, bringing real-time search, discovery and presentation directly into medical education classrooms. Hospitals can offer multimedia information on demand to nursing staff for difficult or unusual procedures, including online presentation of videos, images and audio. Medical centers that encompass rural areas can provide medical education options for physicians in underserved "critical access" areas where additional support for training is needed.


Indiana Center for Database Systems
Computer Sciences Department, Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Supported in part by an e-Enterprise Research Seed Grant, the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, and the National Science Foundation.