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To improve the breast cancer screening and epidemiology applications, it is
necessary to develop a system able to provide large-scale digital imaging
storage and analysis services, make possible for medical sites to store, process,
and data-mine medical images, manage mammograms as digital images, and
make such images available to other sites, like clinics, hospitals, universities,
and research institutes.
One obstacle for a solution to support digital imaging is the space necessary to
store these images. A digitalized A4-size mammography with the minimal
resolution needed to do an effective analysis occupies around 32 MB of storage
space. Usually, four images are taken, using around 128 MB of space per exam. ...