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  2. Multimedia - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia. Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.

  3. Internet-mediated research - Wikipedia

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    Internet-mediated research ( IMR) is the research conducted through the medium of the Internet. [1] In the medical field, it pertains to the practice of gathering medical, biomedical or health related research data via the internet directly from research subjects. The subject, uses a web browser to view and respond to questionnaires that are ...

  4. mHealth - Wikipedia

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    mHealth (also written as m-health or mhealth) is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices. [1] The term is most commonly used in reference to using mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones, tablet computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs), and ...

  5. Medical research - Wikipedia

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    The University of Florida Cancer and Genetics Research Complex is an integrated medical research facility. Medical research (or biomedical research ), also known as health research, refers to the process of using scientific methods with the aim to produce knowledge about human diseases, the prevention and treatment of illness, and the promotion ...

  6. Virtual reality applications - Wikipedia

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    Virtual reality is now being used for therapy which is an effective novel tool for alternative treatment of anxiety disorders and specific phobias. The focus of the medical therapy is on the treating or reducing the effect of its symptoms. Furthermore researchers are using VR to study how people with social anxiety learn and make decisions.

  7. Picture archiving and communication system - Wikipedia

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    A picture archiving and communication system ( PACS) is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types). [1] Electronic images and reports are transmitted digitally via PACS; this eliminates the need to manually file, retrieve, or transport film ...

  8. Digital image processing - Wikipedia

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    Digital image processing is the use of a digital computer to process digital images through an algorithm. [1] [2] As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital image processing has many advantages over analog image processing. It allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the input data and can avoid problems ...

  9. Multimedia information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia information retrieval (MMIR or MIR) is a research discipline of computer science that aims at extracting semantic information from multimedia data sources. [failed verification] Data sources include directly perceivable media such as audio, image and video, indirectly perceivable sources such as text, semantic descriptions, biosignals as well as not perceivable sources such as ...