MIRC OverviewMIRC OverviewMIRC OverviewMIRC Overview

Medical Imaging Resource Center

John Perry

RSNA 2009

RSNA 2009MIRC Courses

Overview of the RSNA MIRC Software

RSNA Clinical Trial and Research Software

Hands On: Using the RSNA Teaching File

MIRC Project Objective

Support the production, storage, indexing and distribution of medical imaging resources:

Teaching files Scientific & technical documentation Research images & datasets Clinical trials data

MIRC Concepts

The key 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.

The key 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 Information Formats

Images: DICOM, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF

Anything displayable by a web browser

Hyperlinks to other web content

Pointers to files for downloading

MIRC Community

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MIRC Query Service:- Access to the community

Internet

The RSNA MIRC Software

Query Service

Storage ServiceDocument index and storage

Author services

DICOM services

File ServicePublic and private file cabinets

Query Service

Standard search form31 defined fields:

Free text Clinical content

Document attributes Image attributes

Document content Patient attributes

Links to other services

Queries a single site, selected sites, or the entire community

Query Service

Query Service

Two display formats for query results:Standard query results

Title (hyperlink)

Author

Abstract

Case NavigatorRandom or ordered

Known and unknown presentations

Standard Search Results

The Case Navigator

Storage Service

Stores and indexes documents

A single MIRC site can have multiple Storage Services for different purposes

Teaching files for each department/specialty

Individual services for each clinical trial

XML Server

Serves documents to users on the web

Transforms XML files to other formats

Multiple display formats (page, tab, mstf)

Exports documents and datasets to users

XML Server

Provides access control for: read, update, export

Restricts access for: owners, users, roles (user groups), public

Supports private (owner-only) sections of otherwise public documents

Display Formats

Page

Tab

MSTF

Page

Tab

MSTF

Author Services

Basic Authoring Tool For rapid creation of documents from files on

the client computer

Advanced Authoring Tool Supports multiple document templates Links to the File Service for inserting links to

images and other files on the server

What goes in a teaching file case?

Whatever you want:History Differential Diagnosis

Findings Discussion

Diagnosis Quizzes

References

Images, drawings, videos, audios, …

TCE Service

Supports the IHE Teaching Files and Clinical Trials Export integration profile

Allows image selection and text entry directly on PACS diagnostic workstations

Receives submissions from IHE TCE Export Manager applications and automatically creates MIRC documents

Zip Service

Supports the creation of multiple MIRC documents from zip files

Folder hierarchy with each folder representing a single case or group of cases

Special processing for images and text files

Originally intended for preloading large numbers of cases from pre-MIRC teaching files

Submit Service

Allows users to upload MIRC documents to a storage service

Supports connections from client-side authoring tools

Supports uploading MIRC documents through a browser

Accepts uploads in the format exported by the XML Server

DICOM Service

Receives DICOM objects from PACS, workstations, modalities, etc.Automatic document generation

Images grouped into documents by study Template-driven Automatic JPEG generation from DICOM Programmable anonymization (de-

identification and re-identification)

Admin Service

Allows administrators to manage a MIRC site through a browser

Control the documents on the Storage Service Adjudicate the input queue for non-publishers Configure the Storage Service and DICOM

Service Control and monitor the DICOM Service Manage users and roles

File Service

Each authenticated user has a private file cabinet for storage of files of any kind

One public file cabinet for the site

Public file cabinet receives DICOM objects from PACS, modalities, workstations

Separate anonymizer

Author Service connection

The File Service

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MIRC Site Services

SubmitSubmitServiceService

ZipZipServiceService

TCETCEServiceService

HTTPHTTPExportExport

HTTPHTTPImportImport

DICOMDICOMExportExport

DICOMDICOMImportImport

MIRCMIRCAnonymizerAnonymizer

DatabaseDatabaseExportExport

The RSNA MIRC Software

The RSNA MIRC Software

Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, SolarisThree components:

Java / Tomcat / MIRC

All components are freeMIRC Users Group meeting:

Tuesday, 12/1 - 2:30-4:30 - Room N128

Questions/Answers & Help

The MIRC Wiki http://mircwiki.rsna.org

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