Integration of a Teaching File System into a PACS Environment
- Experiences from the User’s Perspective Y. Yang, G. Klos, C. Ahlers, P. Mildenberger Mainz, Germany 2008
IHE TCE Integration Profile
IHE: Integrating the Healthcare EnterpriseTCE: Teaching file and Clinical Study Export based on different DICOM definitions, esp. Structured Reporting (SR) and Key Objects (KO)
Three actors for integration a teaching file:Export Selector: marking and coding imagesExport Manager: anonymize and process instancesReceiver Actor: image archive and display
Export Manager and Receiver provided with MIRC (RSNA)Export Selector is missing in most PACS-Solutions
"Mainz" - TCE Selector Tool
Open source software development (University Mainz )Connection between PACS and MIRCServes as TCE-Export Selector to most Workstations • view and select images in PACS-Workstation• DICOM (e.g. SR and KO) send to TCE-Selector• GUI for categorization and some other contens• additional Funktionality: pseudo-/ anonymisation• processing DICOM contens• creating „additional teaching file information (ATFI) and TCE manifests• Transmission the DICOM-object together with ATFI and TCE manifests to MIRC
Essential• Integrate MIRC with PACS using the „Mainz“ - TCE Selector Tool (open source software)• Create your teaching file with additional informations during reporting• Find what you are looking for, using RadLex and MIRC for search• Merge MIRC and ILIAS to bring advanced imaging features to an eLearing platform
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Mainz, Germany 2008 [email protected]
PACS workstation
TCESelector
Department MIRC
Intranet
ILIAS e-learninghttp://ww.e-learning.uni-mainz.de
Public MIRC http://mirc.gesit.de
Internet
URL
client computer
E-learning content
ZIPSubmit Service
Image content
Students Self studyCourse materials
Medical Scientists Reference databaseContinuing education Image repository for publicationsResearch database
Technicians Reference databaseContinuing educationTroubleshooting
MIRCMedical Image Resource Center
Public teaching and reference database Taget Audiences
ILIAS Open source University e-Learning PlatformProvides infrastructure for courses and online teaching, e-Exams and Community featuresSuperordinate educational concept
ILIAS – MIRC IntegrationMerging complementary functionalityMIRC adds advanced viewing functionalityMIRC offers dedicated search and retrieval functionsILIAS povides organizational structure and additional interoperability features (e.g. SCORM)ILIAS adds community and communication features
Our TCE-Selector’s special Features
Easy to use, streamlined workflowProvides graphical user interface to add additional contents (e.g. history, findings, abstract) for each teaching fileProvides user interface to enter the RadLex tree for categorizationStandardized terminology for efficient searching and retrievingPossibly in less than 5 min to create a new teaching file during reporting
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