1. MIRC Refresher Course: New Developments Medical Imaging Resource Center

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

3. 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.

4. The MIRC Community Internet Server Index MIRC Sites Server Index RSNA User Server Index MIRC Storage Service: - Document Authoring - Document Storage - Document Indexing - Web Server MIRC Query Service: - Access to the community

5. MIRC Implementations Eight known MIRC Software Implementations –MIRC Storage Service layer on top of an existing teaching file system: UCSF; Indiana; Mallinckrodt; CasImage Commercial: MyPACS; GlobalRad –Complete MIRC implementations: RSNA National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore Many, many MIRC sites

6. New Developments – RSNA MIRC New authoring tools –Flexible document construction; Annotation Support for third-party authoring programs Research dataset tools –Security; HIPAA audit logging Clinical Trials

7. New Developments – RSNA MIRC Clinical trials UPenn and WFU collaboration NCI collaboration –Acquisition tools for images and metadata –Anonymization –Data transport –External database interface –Solutions to many IT support issues

8. XMLServer OS File System SubmitServiceInputQueue StorageServiceMIRCIndex AdminService HTTPExport HTTPImport AuthorServiceFileService DICOMExport DICOMImport Object Processor MIRCAnonymizerMIRCAnonymizerDICOMImport QueryService DatabaseExport The RSNA MIRC Implementation

9. DICOM Service Receives DICOM objects from PACS, workstations, modalities, … Automatic document generation –Images grouped into documents by study –Template-driven –Automatic JPEG generation from DICOM –Programmable anonymization (de-identification and re-identification)

10. DICOM Service Anonymization –Automatic trial patient ID generation –Remapping of dates, UIDs, IDs, etc. –Removal or replacement of data Connection to other Clinical Trial Services –Support for encrypted communications (SSL) –DICOM import / DICOM export –HTTP(S) import / HTTP(S) export –Database export

11. Database Interface Links to an externally developed database Provides classes for interrogating: –DICOM objects –Metadata files: XML Zip (with manifest) Anonymization for DICOM and XML objects

12. FC DICOM FC DICOM FC DICOM PI DICOM PI DICOM MIRC Clinical Trial Configuration MIRC FieldCenter Application: - Image reception - Anonymization - Transmission to PI MIRC Site: - Image reception - Image Storage - Transfer to PACS and/or workstations Firewalls Internet HTTP HTTPS Database HTTP DICOM

13. The FieldCenter Application Runs at the image acquisition site Receives images and metadata files via the DICOM and HTTP(S) protocols Anonymizes images and metadata files Transmits to the PI MIRC site via HTTP(S) Automatically links to the PI MIRC site for remapping tables and software updates

14. The FieldCenter Application

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

19. The RSNA MIRC Software Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris Three components: Java / Tomcat / MIRC All components are free MIRC Users Group meetings: 12/112:30 - 2:30

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