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A Novel Approach to Endoscopic Exams Archiving

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The technological evolution verified in recent years caused an increase in the number of therapeutic and diagnostic tests prescribed/performed that led to an exponential growth in the amount of data generated. In the particular case of endoscopy, the data resulting from the procedure is not stored, disallowing their use for future consultation or research purposes and thus forcing the repetition, sometimes unnecessary, of the exam. In order to overcome these issues, an archiving system was developed based on a NoSQL database. The proposed system is supported by a distributed architecture comprising different health care institutions and allows the archiving and replication of the produced examinations. Therefore, the system allows transparent and ubiquitous access to these exams that often correspond to large media files.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Joel Braga, Isabel Laranjo & Victor Alves

  2. Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Joel Braga, Isabel Laranjo, Carla Rolanda & Jorge Correia-Pinto

  3. ICVS/3B’s - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

    Carla Rolanda & Jorge Correia-Pinto

  4. CCTC - Computer Science and Technology Center, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Isabel Laranjo & Victor Alves

  5. Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal

    Carla Rolanda

  6. Department of Gastroenterology, Santa Luzia Hospital, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Luís Lopes

  7. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal

    Jorge Correia-Pinto

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  1. Universidade de Coimbra & LIACC, Rio Tinto, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. Department of Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix . B Tan

  4. Empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

    Karl . A Stroetmann

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Braga, J., Laranjo, I., Rolanda, C., Lopes, L., Correia-Pinto, J., Alves, V. (2014). A Novel Approach to Endoscopic Exams Archiving. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05951-8_23

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