Metadados para tratamento de imagens médicas como objeto de ensino e aprendizagem com fins de reuso

Abstract

It addresses the issue of the use of images in medical education and the reuse of imagery material as a didactic resource, which requires the adoption of a set of appropriate metadata. The research comes from a previous study on images, their representation and retrieval in information systems and improves with respect to the study of metadata schemes that describe images, medical images and learning objects. It aims to survey, describe and compare metadata standards to propose a scheme that enhances suitability and uses metadata in medical education, combining the imagery and educational categories. Methodologically, an exploratory study of a theoretical and qualitative nature was carried out by surveying Brazilian public universities that have medical courses and use image databases for educational purposes, and subsequently the identification, description and comparison between the sets of metadata describing images and learning objects. As a result, it was possible to create a set of metadata capable of bringing together all the functional qualities of images and didactics to be used in the teaching of medicine. It is concluded that the lack of an official metadata standard for the treatment of medical images and their suitability for medical education, leaves the country in need of technological and didactic resources to optimize the training of medical professionals.