MIRC OverviewMIRC Overview

Medical Imaging Resource CenterMedical Imaging Resource Center

RSNA2006 MIRC CoursesRSNA2006 MIRC Courses

Overview of the RSNA MIRC Software

Installing MIRC on Your Laptop

Using MIRC for Clinical Trials

Hands ON: Using the RSNA Teaching File

MIRC Project ObjectiveMIRC 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 ConceptsMIRC 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.

MIRC Information FormatsMIRC Information Formats

Images: DICOM, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF

Anything displayable by a web browser

Hyperlinks to other web content

Pointers to files for downloading

The MIRC CommunityThe MIRC Community

ServerServer

IndexMIRC Sites

ServerServer

Index

RSNA

User

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

MIRC Query Service:- Access to the community

Internet

The RSNA MIRC SoftwareThe RSNA MIRC Software

Query Service

Storage ServiceDocument index and storage

Author services

DICOM services

File ServicePublic and private file cabinets

Query ServiceQuery Service

Standard query form31 defined query 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 ServiceQuery Service

Query ServiceQuery Service

Two display formats for query results:Standard query results

Title (hyperlink)

Author

Abstract

Case NavigatorRandom or ordered

Known and unknown presentations

Standard Query ResultsStandard Query Results

The Case NavigatorThe Case Navigator

Intended for teaching file cases

Storage ServiceStorage 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 ServerXML 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 ServerXML 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 FormatsDisplay Formats

Page

Tab

MSTF

Author ServicesAuthor 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?What goes in a teaching file case?

Whatever you want:History Differential Diagnosis

Findings Discussion

Diagnosis Quizzes

References

Images, drawings, videos, audios, …

TCE ServiceTCE Service

Supports the IHE Teaching Files and Clinical Trials Export integration profile

– Allows image selection and text entry directly on PACS diagnostic workstations (Agfa, Fuji, GE)

– Receives submissions from IHE TCE Export Manager applications (Agfa, MIRC) and automatically creates MIRC documents

Zip ServiceZip 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 ServiceSubmit 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 ServiceDICOM 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 ServiceAdmin Service

Allows administrators to manage a Storage Service 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 ServiceFile 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 ServiceThe File Service

The RSNA MIRC SoftwareThe RSNA MIRC Software

Available on the RSNA MIRC site (mirc.rsna.org)– Click the Downloads link in the header

The RSNA MIRC SoftwareThe RSNA MIRC Software

Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, SolarisThree components:

Java / Tomcat / MIRC

All components are freeMIRC Users Group meetings:

11/27 1:30 - 3:30 E26211/30 12:15 - 2:15 E257

Questions/Answers & HelpQuestions/Answers & Help

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

RSNA Forums:– http://forums.rsna.org

– User Comments, Questions and Answers– RSNA MIRC Software Announcements– MIRC Implementers’ Corner

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