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

1. How to Set Up a System for Teaching Files, Conferences, and Clinical Trials Medical Imaging Resource Center

2. MIRC InfoRad Courses • How to Set Up a System for Teaching Files, Conferences, and Clinical Trials • How to Author MIRC Teaching Files • MIRC Case Studies: Using MIRC for Education and Research • Web Classroom Sessions

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Index Server Index Server MIRC User Query Service RSNA Internet Index Server MIRC Sites

7. The RSNA MIRC Software • Query Service • Storage Service - Storage Service - XML Server - Submit Service - Author Service • DICOM Service - Admin Service • File Service • private and public file cabinets

8. Query Service • Standard query form • 31 defined query fields: • free text • Document attributes • Document content • Clinical content • Image attributes • Patient attributes • Links to Storage Service Functions • Support for querying a single site, selected sites, or the entire community

9. Query Form

10. Select Site(s)

11. Enter Search Terms

12. Admin / Submit / Author

13. Query Service • Two display formats for query results: • Standard query results • Title (hyperlink) • Author • Abstract • Access restrictions, publication date • Case Navigator • Random or ordered • Known and unknown presentations

14. Standard Query Results

15. The Case Navigator Intended for teaching file cases

16. Storage Service • Provides for the storage and indexing of documents on the Storage Service • A single MIRC site can have multiple Storage Services for different purposes

17. XML Server • Serves documents to users on the web • Special support for XML files to allow for transformation from XML to other formats • Three display formats • page, tab, mstf (MIRC Standard Teaching File) • User-selectable transformations for specialized data • Support for exporting documents and locally referenced objects

18. XML Server • Support for access control for: • read, update, export • Control of access by: • owner, users, roles (user groups), public • Support for private (owner-only) sections of documents • Control of publication authority

19. Submit Service • Storage Service Function • Allows clients to upload MIRC documents to the storage service • Supports connections from client-side authoring tools • Supports uploading documents via a browser • Accepts uploads in the format exported by the XML Server

20. Author Service • Storage Service Function • Allows authenticated users to create MIRC documents directly on the storage service • Supports multiple templates to allow for the creation of different kinds of documents • Links to the File Service to allow for inserting links to images and other documents

21. DICOM Service • Storage Service Function • Receives DICOM objects from PACS, workstations, modalities, … • Automatic document generation • Images grouped into documents by study • Template-driven • Automatic JPEG generation from the DICOM • Programmable anonymization (de-identification)

22. DICOM Service • Automatic trial patient ID generation • Connection to other DICOM Services for clinical trials • Support for encrypted communications (SSL) • DICOM import / DICOM export • HTTP(S) import / HTTP(S) export

23. Clinical Trial Configuration DICOM DICOM DICOM FC FC FC DICOM DICOM PI PI HTTP / HTTPS Principal Investigators Field Centers

24. Users RIDER NCI Cornell MIRC Site MDA Internet MSK PACS UCLA Chicago n Iowa Work-stations Mich. MIRC sites

25. Admin Service • Storage Service Function • 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 • Configure the DICOM Service • Control and monitor the DICOM Service • Manage users and roles

26. File Service • MIRC Site Function • One service for all Storage Services on the site • Each authenticated user has a private File Service for storage of files of any kind • One public File Service for the site • Public File Service receives DICOM objects • The File Service connects to the Author Service to allow drag and drop during authoring

27. The RSNA MIRC Software • Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux • Three components: • Java • Tomcat • MIRC • All components are free • MIRC source release in December • MIRC Users Group meeting: • Thursday 12/2 at 0830 in E257

28. The RSNA MIRC Software • Available on the RSNA MIRC site • mirc.rsna.org • Click the Downloads link in the header

29. The MIRC Documentation Index The Current Release

30. The MIRC Site Software

31. The MIRC Site Software The Installer

32. Demonstration Query the Web Classroom Access document Access personal file cabinet Upload image Access author service Access document

33. Questions/Answers & Help • RSNA Forums: • http://forums.rsna.org • User Comments, Questions and Answers • RSNA MIRC Software Announcements • MIRC Implementers’ Corner • MIRC Technical Review Committee • Subscribe on the Forums site

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