A medical imaging diagnosis supporting method with sound effects

Abstract

Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) has become one of the most important medical activities. Because of development of image processing, large amount of high-definition images are provided to investigate. Radiologists have to cost so much times and efforts to investigate these medical images. It is strongly required to reduce their burden without debasing the quality of imaging diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a method to generate sound information based on the image features and discuss about their effects of sounds for diagnosis. Sonification technique helps for attention rousing and the fatigue reduction for medical imaging diagnosis.