How to Author How to Author MIRC Teaching FilesMIRC Teaching Files

MIRC 2005 infoRAD Courses

• How to Set Up a System for Teaching Files, and Conferences

• How to Set Up a System for Teaching Files, and Conferences – Hands on Workshop

• How to Author Teaching Files using MIRC• How to Author Teaching Files using MIRC – Hands on

Workshop• How to Set Up a System for Clinical Trials and

Research Data Sets• MIRC Case Studies: Using MIRC Software for

Education and Research

Today’s Outline

• “Brief” Overview of MIRC 2005.• MIRC Concepts and Lexicon.• Live demo of the Authoring process• Questions

Brief Survey!

• Who has used MIRC to access cases/information?

• Who has a MIRC site at their institution/practice?

• Who has tried authoring a teaching file case for a MIRC?

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Imaging

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What is a MIRC????

MIRC Concepts

• MIRC is an RSNA sponsored initiative.• A continual work in progress.• Built in the spirit of the open-source

community.• The key technical concepts:

– MIRC is a community of cooperating libraries on the Internet.

– The libraries cooperate by supporting a common query mechanism.

– The query mechanism allows users to find information wherever it is stored.

MIRC Objective

• MIRC objectives reach beyond Teaching Files.

• Support the production, storage, indexing and distribution of medical imaging resources:– Teaching files– Scientific & technical documentation– Research images & datasets– Clinical trials data

MIRC Compatibility

• MIRC supports all information storage formats.– Images: DICOM, GIF, JPEG, PNG– Hyperlinks to other web content.– Virtually any content that is

displayable in a web browser.– Pointers to other files for

downloading.

The MIRC Schemas

• MIRCdocument– Format for documents on the RSNA site.– Format for Index Cards on the RSNA site.

• MIRCquery & MIRCqueryresponse– Format for communication between Query

Services and Storage Service Indexes.

• MIRCsiteindex– Format for remote site indexing.

MIRC Server Components

• Query Service– An entry point into the MIRC community for a user

on the Internet.– Creates/transmits using MIRCquery schema.

• Storage Service– A cooperating information library.– Index: the library’s card catalog.– Server: the library’s shelves.– Responds to MIRCquery using the

MIRCqueryresponse schema.

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ServerServerIndexMIRC Storage Service:- Document Authoring- Document Storage- Document Indexing- Web Server

MIRC Query Service:- Access to the community

MIRC Sites

• Authoring requires assembling images and text to submit to MIRC storage service.

• What’s New?– New Templates– More powerful and customizable

authoring service– Image annotations

MIRC Authoring Service

Types of MIRC Documents

• Select from multiple templates in MIRC Author Service to help you build content including:– Standard teaching file template– Page-format document template– Tab-format document template– Simple teaching file template

Guidelines

• The document types can be modified, that is, elements can be added or subtracted.

• The document types provide basic structure to your content.

• Decide which document type to use depending on the content type.

• Pick the suitable display format for your content.

Viewing Document in a Browser

• Once you save the case, you can open it by searching the server.

• If you need to make changes, do so and resave the document.

• If you need to delete the case, you can do so by going to the “document” tab after opening the case.

• Remember, you can re-open old submissions, make changes and resubmit the case

Enough Talk!!! How do we Author???

Live DemoLive Demo

RSNA Forum

• A lot more is to come.• Feedback from YOU is essential!• http://forums.rsna.org/• Please become part of the MIRC

community by using the MIRC forum• Please provide feedback!