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Medical Image Resource Center. What is MIRC?. “Medical Imaging Resource Center” Makes it easier to locate and share electronic medical images and related information On your PC In your department Throughout the world. MIRC: Why?. MIRC helps radiologists: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Medical Image Resource Center
What is MIRC?
• “Medical Imaging Resource Center”• Makes it easier to locate and share
electronic medical images and related information– On your PC– In your department– Throughout the world
MIRC: Why?
• MIRC helps radiologists:– Create and manage teaching files and
reference images for decision support – Participate in imaging clinical trials– Share research databases within
institutions and across the imaging community
Key MIRC Concepts
• Libraries cooperate by using a common mechanism to query one another
• The MIRC query mechanism allows users to find information within these libraries
• MIRC stores and displays documents in multiple formats
Key MIRC Concepts
• Libraries cooperate by using a common mechanism to query one another
• The MIRC query mechanism allows users to find information within these libraries
• MIRC stores and displays documents in multiple formats
Key MIRC Concepts
• Libraries cooperate by supporting a common query mechanism
• A Query mechanism allows users to find information within these libraries
• MIRC supports multiple information storage formats
MIRC Libraries
• MIRC libraries archive a wide variety of text, images, and other multimedia information– Teaching files– Research and reference image repositories
• Collection of disease-specific radiographs• Normal variants• Functional brain MR data sets• Clinical trials images and related data• Journal articles• Textbooks• PowerPoint and other types of presentations
MIRC Components
• Query ServiceEntry point into the MIRC community for a user on the InternetQuery service is defined by its use of the MIRC query schema
MIRC Components
• Storage Service:Cooperating information library – a web archive or a database, designed to support the MIRC query mechanism.
• Index:The library’s card catalog of the contents of a storage service.
The MIRC Community
InternetInternet
ServerServer
IndexMIRC Sites
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ServerServerIndexMIRC Storage Service:- Document Authoring- Document Storage- Document Indexing- Web Server
MIRC Query Service:- Access to the community
MIRC Query Service:User Fills in Search Form
MIRC Query Results:Displays “Hits” from MIRC Sites
MIRC Teaching File Display:MIRC-TF Display Formats
MIRC Authoring Tools
Create and Edit MIRC Documents
Tabs for document sections
Enter document content
Insert images from File Cabinet
MIRC Authoring Tools
Image Annotation
MIRC Clinical Trials Features
• Image acquisition from modalities and PACS
• Image and metadata anonymization• Secure image and metadata transport• Automatic storage and indexing of all
data, with the standard MIRC search and display functions
• Interfacing to external databases for trial-specific analysis
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MIRC Clinical Trial ConfigurationModalities
MIRC FieldCenter Application:- Image reception- Anonymization- Transmission to PI
Workstations
MIRC Site:- Image reception- Image Storage- Transfer to PACS and/or workstations
Firewalls
InternetHTTPHTTPS
MIRC in Clinical Trials
• MIRC provides non-proprietary standards-based software for clinical trials, available free and open source
• After extensive evaluation, the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Imaging Program has selected MIRC for use in clinical trials
Other Ongoing Clinical Trials
• WHIMS 1-3 (Women's Health Initiative Memory Study) • WHI – Women’s Health Initiative CT Study• CARDIA - Coronary Artery Risk Development in
Young Adults• RIDER - Reference Image Database to Evaluate
Response to Therapy• CIREN – Crash Injury Research & Engineering
Network– Wake Forest (PI)
• CAMPS – Carotid Atherosclerosis MRI Progression Study– University of Washington (PI)
Research Dataset Acquisition
• MIRC feature developed in collaboration with Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
• Allows internal researchers to acquire DICOM images from modalities, store and manage them without using the clinical PACS– Bridges internal networks– Tracks access of PHI for HIPAA
compliance
NCI Collaboration
• Successful demonstration in early 2005
• Support of current trials (RIDER, LIDC)
• Decision to use MIRC for clinical trials in the future
• Development of MIRC extensions to support the NCI imaging database
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DICOMHTTP
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MIRC Storage Service
MIRC DICOM Service
MIRC Database Service
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MIRC
I3 DB(Annotations:
Image, Clinical,Markup, etc.)
Hibernate (I3 ORM)
I3 Object APIcaCORE SDK
Data Manager
Curation
Data Manager
CSM API
ProcessorsQuery, Result set, User Registration, Lookup Manager, CSM, Export
Data TransferObject (DTO)
Java ServerFaces (JSF)
Cancer Centers
Researchers
Academia
Industry
Hibernate (CSM)
Hibernate (I3 ORM)
DataAccessLayer
HTTPFTP
MDBImage
zipping
FileSystem
(DICOM, XML, DOC)
JBoss
Tomcat
Retrieval
Open Source Project
• All source code is available on-line– CVS repository– Documentation on mircwiki.rsna.org
• Actively maintained MIRC project list
What’s Next?
• My MIRC– RSNA-hosted, Web-based system for
personal teaching files– Enabling easy online access and
permanent storage– Free to RSNA Members– Premiering in 2008
MIRC User Group Meetings
Open to all MIRC users • Sunday 1:30-3:30, Room E251• Thursday 12:15-2:15, Room E257
How to Participate?
• Use MIRC to perform searches for images and information
• Be an author• Set up a MIRC site:
– Connect your existing Teaching File system– Build your own Teaching File system:
• Use the RSNA MIRC implementation• Use someone else’s• Develop your own and make it MIRC compatible
Need More Information?
• Go to http://mirc.rsna.org• Browse the documentation to learn
how to use the software• Click the “Downloads” link to obtain
the software and installation instructions