ICT in healthcare
MRI
CAT
Advantages
Disadvantages
What is it?
Magnetic Resonance imaging
Tube surrounded by a circular magnet
uses magnetism, radio waves and a computer to create an image of a body.
What is it?
X-ray image
a computer controls the motion of the x-ray source and detectors
also called a CT scan
Highly detailed and very accurate
painless for the people getting scanned
very precise
usually quite expensive
Quite loud
need a large electricity supply
Gives the doctors a clear image of what they are scanning
Expert systems
What is an expert system?
Artificial intelligence
Parrallel processors
An ICT system that mimics the decision making of a human
what is it?
what can it do?
Computer programmes that learn to act like the human brain through experience
draw deductions
produce new information
modify rules or write new rules
what are they?
these are computers that are able to do many things at once, they act similar to the human brain in this way