An Evaluation of HTML5 and WebGL for Medical Imaging Applications

Table 1

An overview of several previously published medical imaging applications.

Group	Year	Client technology	Functions	Required plug-in
Slomka et al. [2]	2000	Java	Access to remote patient database, the compressed image is transmitted to the local computer, and several applets are available for different study types	JVM^a
Knoll et al. [3]	2000	Java	Patient administration, 2D reconstruction and image processing, interpretation and collaborative diagnosis	JVM
Choi et al. [4]	2002	Java	Medical imaging conference	JVM
Zeng et al. [5]	2003	ActiveX	Access to remote medical image databases, image presentation, and image processing	ActiveX plug-in
Kaldoudi and Karaiskakis [6]	2006	XML	Access to remote medical image databases and image presentation	None
Mongeau et al. [7]	2008	VRML^b	3D visualization	VRML browser plug-in
Kamauu et al. [8]	2008	Java	Image display and processing	JVM
Costa et al. [9]	2009	ActiveX	Access to remote medical image databases and image presentation	ActiveX plug-in
Mahmoudi et al. [10]	2010	AJAX^c + VRML	Image processing; and 3D visualization	VRML browser plug-in
Shen et al. [11]	2014	AJAX	Access to remote medical image databases and image presentation	None
Qiao et al. [12]	2015	AJAX	Image presentation and image processing	None
Looney et al. [13]	2016	Java	Access to remote medical image databases and image processing	JVM
Xiberta and Boada [14]	2016	AJAX	Image presentation and image processing	None
Doel et al. [15]	2017	Java	Medical imaging data sharing	JVM
Jiang et al. [16]	2017	Android	Transmission performance improvement with respect to batch transmission processing and image presentation	None
Huang et al. [17]	2018	AJAX	Access to remote medical image databases and image presentation	None
Gøeg et al. [18]	2018	TypeScript [19]	Access to remote medical image databases and image presentation	None

^aJVM is the acronym for Java virtual machine; ^bVRML is the acronym for virtual reality modeling language; ^cAJAX is the acronym for asynchronous JavaScript and XML.