MIRC Medical Imaging Resource Center A Tour of the MIRC Community Rex Jakobovits, PhD Affiliate Professor, University of Washington President, Vivalog Technologies* *Vivalog is a provider of commercial teaching file solutions Slides contributed by John Perry and Rodney Shaffer

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

Approach: Enable a virtual community –of medical image libraries –with a distributed index –supporting a distributed search mechanism Peer-to-peer sharing, like Napster

An open community of medical imaging libraries and teaching files around the world, cooperating by sharing information through a common query format MIRC

Searching Imaging Resources, B.M. (Before MIRC) Google –Unstructured, free text No way to specify give me chest x-rays on male patients with pneumonia –Hit and miss, inconsistent results No way to say just give me teaching files, not random web pages

Searching Imaging Resources, B.M. (Before MIRC) Browse isolated collections –No way to query across systems –Need to learn heterogeneous query interfaces –Results not aggregated

Searching Image Resources, A.M. (Age of MIRC) A unified query interface –Structured querying across multiple repositories –Results aggregated in a case browser –Control over how results are displayed

How does it work? MIRC committee defined some important standards: –MIRCDocument Schema –MIRCQuery Schema Each repository can participate as a MIRC Storage Service, responding to queries from any MIRC Query Service

MIRC Sites Internet Server Index Server Index MIRC site B Server Index Query Service MIRC site C Server Index RSNA site User MIRC site A

MIRC – a technical definition MIRC is defined to be a set of servers (query services and storage services) that support: –the MIRCquery and –MIRCqueryresult XML schemas MIRC places no constraints on how servers display their contents

Query Services Provide users with query forms. Translate a query form into a MIRCquery XML object. Distribute the MIRCquery to all selected Storage Services. Collate the results and return them to the user.

Storage Services Respond to queries from Query Services and serve content to users. Each storage service maintains its own index Each storage service is responsible for the display format of its content

Casimage Case Display

MedPix Case Display

MyPACS.net Case Display

Neuroscience Institute Display

RSNA Case Display

Unknown Query Can use for teaching cases –Resident board preparation –Test skills in a specific modality or organ system

Unknown Query

Unknown Query Result

How can I participate in MIRC? 1.Create cases using a free web-based MIRC teaching file authoring system MyPACS.net, Medpix, etc.

Adding Images to a Case

How can I participate in MIRC? 1.Create cases using a free web-based MIRC teaching file authoring system 2.Create MircDocuments with the free RSNA MIRCat, and upload them to a MIRC storage provider

MIRCat – the Editor pane

MIRCat – the Display pane

MIRCat – the ACR code pane

MIRCat – the Palette

The Image Editor

MIRCat – the Selector

MIRCat – DICOM Q/R

MIRCat – DICOM Store

Case submission

The Finished Product

How can I participate in MIRC? 1.Create cases using a free web-based MIRC teaching file authoring system 2.Create MircDocuments with the free RSNA MIRCat, and upload them to a MIRC storage provider 3.Become a MIRC Storage Provider

The RSNA MIRC Software Query ServiceQuery Service Storage ServiceStorage Service Storage Service servlet Submit Service servlet Admin Service servlet XML Server servlet

The RSNA MIRC Site Software Serves all kinds of MIRC documents Runs on all platforms Personal/departmental teaching file system Clinical trials support coming soon Free / open source

MIRC as a data exchange format We use MIRCDocument standard for publishing cases to MyPACS.net from other applications RadPix Customer Server MyPACS.net PACS Partner

Working with a MIRC Solutions Provider Vivalog Technologies, providing added-value MIRC- enabled solutions

Questions/Answers & Help RSNA Forums: – –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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