Prototyping Semantic Dialogue Systems for Radiologists

In the future, speech-based semantic image retrieval and annotation of medical images should provide the basis for clinical decision support and help in computer aided diagnosis. In this paper, we describe today’s clinical workflow and interaction requirements and present a semantic dialogue system installation for radiologists. Our research focus is on the interaction design in combination with the implementation of our prototype system for patient image search and image annotation while using a speech based dialogue shell and a big touchscreen in the radiology environment. Ontology modeling provides the backbone for knowledge representation in the dialogue shell and the specific medical application domain.