1. Medical Imaging Resource Center A Tour of the MIRC Community

2. MIRC The 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 A little history… MIRC was originally conceived as a large central database of images and related clinical information that would be maintained by the RSNA for open access by the medical imaging community.

4. MIRC Evolution of the concept… It soon become evident that a more effective strategy would be to leverage existing on-line electronic resources while creating new ones.

5. MIRC The technical approach… A virtual community –of medical image libraries –with a distributed index –supporting a distributed search mechanism A kind of radiological Napster The final result…

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

7. MIRC MIRC Sites Query Service –An entry point into the MIRC community for a user on the Internet Storage Service –A cooperating library Index: the librarys card catalog Server: the librarys shelves

8. MIRC 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

9. MIRC 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

10. MIRC 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.

11. MIRC Query Form

12. MIRC Standard Query Results

13. MIRC The Case Navigator Intended for teaching file cases

14. MIRC 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

15. MIRC Casimage Case Display

16. MIRC MedPix Case Display

17. MIRC MyPACS.net Case Display

18. MIRC Neuroscience Institute Display

19. MIRC RSNA Case Display

20. MIRC The RSNA MIRC Software Query ServiceQuery Service Storage ServiceStorage Service Storage Service servlet Submit Service servlet Admin Service servlet XML Server servlet Authoring ToolAuthoring Tool

21. MIRC 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

22. MIRC The RSNA MIRC Authoring Tool Creates all kinds of MIRC documents Runs on all platforms Submits documents to MIRC sites running the RSNA software DICOM Store SCP and Q/R SCU Free / open source

23. MIRC MIRCat – the Editor pane

24. MIRC MIRCat – the Display pane

25. MIRC MIRCat – the ACR code pane

26. MIRC MIRCat – the Palette

27. MIRC MIRCat – the Selector

28. MIRC MIRCat – DICOM Q/R

29. MIRC MIRCat – DICOM Store

30. MIRC Case submission

31. MIRC The Image Editor

32. MIRC The Future Clinical Trials data collection software release (early 04)Clinical Trials data collection software release (early 04) Normal variants repositoriesNormal variants repositories Research data repositoriesResearch data repositories Presentation submission mechanismPresentation submission mechanism

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

34. MIRC Other Courses This Week How to Author MIRC Teaching File DocumentsHow to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents How to Set Up a Personal Teaching File SystemHow to Set Up a Personal Teaching File System Inside the RSNA MIRC SoftwareInside the RSNA MIRC Software