MILORD: Multimedia Interaction with Large Object-Oriented Radiological and Clinical Databases

The MILORD project concerns the implementation of an integrated developing environment to carry out medical applications (in particular clinical and radiological applications) dealing with multimedia information. The main goal of project was to facilitate the effective interaction of physicians with large amount of relevant multimedia data, through the use of an integrated set of tools to entry, to store, to process, and to communicate patient information. Advanced information technologies have been exploited: new knowledge representation languages and tools, friendly human-computer interaction, 3D graphical processing and displaying of medical images, high performance parallel architectures, large-scale distributed data storage, federated environments for clinical co-operation. The main results that have been obtained during the project and the plans for the future demonstration and exploitation activities are described