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The purpose of this work is to point out what we considered a possible advance from the point of view of instruments and available methods for the creation of database applied to cardiology according to the technological panorama.
Microprocessors used at present allow, also on Personal Computer, signal and image processing. The quantity of central memory which these computers can manage reaches 16 megabytes. Devices of inside permanent storage at one’s disposal nowadays offer to the user more than 100 megabytes. With storage capacities of this kind it is possible to use the Personal Computer also for medical record management.
In the Personal Computer field parallel processing is now beginning. The transputer is composed by a microprocessor, one memory (2–4 kilobytes) and a device set of communication among processors which allows data transfer high speed (20 megabits per second). Many problems in the medical field can be taken to pieces in parallel processes, and executed by a transputer network.
Video-discs and CD-ROM put at the user’s disposal such a storage capacity to allow the storage of a great quantity of bio-images. For instance, two sides of a video-disk can contain 109000 images or an hour of film shooting (30 images per second for 3600 seconds) [19]. Storage capacity of a video-disk, expressed in the usual measure, reaches 4 gigabytes [20]. Storage capacity of a CD-ROM is 600 megabytes.
In order to represent biomedical images it is necessary to dispose of high resolution screens. Today videos are compatible with the majority of graphic interfaces adopted on Personal Computers and offer a resolution of about 280300 microns and a suitable grey scale.
MEDIX is the name under which IEEE-EMBS proposes a standard for the exchange of medical data. The main purpose of MEDIX is to specify and establish a strong and flexible standard for data exchange among health information heterogeneous systems.
Hypermedia is a general concept which refers to processor capacity to manage, in an integrated way, great quantities of alphanumeric texts, but also database, suitable sounds and static and dynamic images, by means of videodiscs or CD-ROM. The most known and widespread implementation of Hypermedia is Hypercard. Application packages Hypercard allows a fast access to great capacity mass storages of hundreds of Megabytes, such as hard-disks and CD-ROM, through personal computer. In this system, man-machine interface is particularly simple and comprehensible.
The work consists of three distinct parts which follow one other. The first one illustrates problems believed still unsolved by operators in the area of database for cardiology, as users or makers. In the second part we make comments on the recent methods and advanced instruments which can be useful to sort out those problems. The third one is devoted to pointing out some experiences, that could be significant also for the field of database applied to cardiology.
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Pinciroli, F., Combi, C. (1991). Advanced instruments and methods for the development of databases applied to cardiology. In: Meester, G.T., Pinciroli, F. (eds) Databases for Cardiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3720-1_3
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