Electronic physician annotation device helps analyze medical images

ePAD is a freely available quantitative imaging informatics platform, developed by the Rubin Lab at Stanford Medicine Radiology at Stanford University. Thanks to its extensibility, ePAD can be used to support a wide range of imaging-based projects.

Radiologists tracking lesions on tomographical scans often can find it hard to put together a “picture” of their progress by reading a textual narrative of the patient’s scan history.

To help make the process more intuitive and help improve how scans are analyzed, researchers at Stanford School of Medicine have developed the ePAD (electronic Physician Annotation Device), an online tool for visual tracking of changes in radiological scans. While specifically developed for radiologists, the same technology can be applied by other physicians for documenting and keeping records on their patients. For More information : www.epad.stanford.edu