Starting in August 2011, the University of California, San Francisco, began offering Image Share to patients who contacted the medical image library to request a CD of their tests.

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The Intel-side co-principal investigator, Mei Chen, has been in research at Intel and elsewhere for more than a decade, and has most recently focused on detailed medical image analysis and visual-collection management and navigation.

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Amaranth Cline, 70, in treatment for bile-duct cancer at Mount Sinai, says she learned of Image Share from the medical library there when she requested a copy of her scans.

WSJ: Image Share Program Seeks to Cut Down on Repeat Medical Scans

The team found that trained radiologists could actually reduce the dose given to a child by five times and still display an image good enough to diagnose tumours and other medical problems.

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