Transcript How to Author MIRC Teaching File Document

How to Author MIRC
Teaching File
Documents
MIRC InfoRad Courses
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How to Set Up a Personal Teaching File
System.
Tour of the MIRC Community
Inside the RSNA MIRC Software
How to Author MIRC Teaching File
Documents
How to Build a Database-driven MIRC
Teaching File System.
MIRC Objective
Support the production, storage, indexing
and distribution of medical imaging
resources:
Teaching files
 Scientific & technical documentation
 Research images & datasets
 Clinical trials data
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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.
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MIRC supports all information
storage formats.
 Images:
DICOM, GIF, JPEG,
PNG
 Hyperlinks to other web content.
 Virtually any content that is
displayable in a web browser.
 Pointers to other files for
downloading.
The MIRC Schemas
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MIRCdocument
Format for documents on the RSNA site.
 Format for Index Cards on the RSNA site.
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MIRCquery & MIRCqueryresponse
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Format for communication between Query
Services and Storage Service Indexes.
MIRCsiteindex
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Format for remote site indexing.
MIRC Server Components
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Query Service
An entry point into the MIRC community for a
user on the Internet.
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Storage Service
A cooperating information library.
 Index: the library’s card catalog.
 Server: the library’s shelves.
MIRC
MIRC site
User
Query
Service
RSNA site
Index
Server
Internet
Index
MIRC site
Index
Index
Server
Server
Server
MIRC site
MIRCat
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What is MIRCat?
MIRC authoring tool.
Features:
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Can construct MIRC compatible teaching, research or
reference documents.
Documents can be submitted to a MIRC compatible
storage service for retrieval.
MIRCat supports for DICOM Q/R
MIRCat supports for DICOM SCP.
MIRCat supports ACR lexicon and RADLEX (soon!).
Is already feature packed!
A lot more is to come.
Feedback from YOU is essential!
MIRC Authoring Tool
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Java (100% pure)
Specific to the MIRCdocument schema
DICOM, GIF, JPEG, PNG formats
DICOM Q/R SCU + Storage SCP
Personal & departmental directories
Image annotation tool
Personal templates
MIRCat
Modalities
Author
Department
Network
Cases
Cases
Cases
Cases
Cases
Cases
MIRC
PACS
DICOM
SCP
DICOM SCP
Dep. MIRC
Where Do I get
MIRCat?
http://mirc.rsna.org/mircatsoftware
MIRCat Download
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Contains a release description of software
(currently Beta-2)
Full documentation on installation and
operation of software.
A link to download the software in a ZIP
file.
Click the download link, save the ZIP file,
and unzip the package on your desktop.
Installation
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Install Java 2 version 1.4 (or later)
run the installer you downloaded
 add the <SDK directory>\bin directory to the
Path environment variable
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downloaded from the RSNA MIRC site
(http://mirc.rsna.org/mirc/query)
Unpack the zip file onto a disk drive
MIRCat.jar
MIRCat Directory
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Data - DICOM images
Templates - directory for MIRC templates
MIRC files
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MIRCat.jar main program
ImageEditor.jar image deditor
Mircacq.jar DICOM acquisition library
Dcm4che.jar DICOM support library
GIF.jar GIF support library
Log4.jar logger for DICOM functions
Getopt.jar configuration file reader
MIRCatProperites.cfg configuration file
The MIRCat Directory
GIF
Configuration
The
Document
DICOM
image
MIRCat
utility
support
Templates.
application
file
function
reader.
library.
files
file
Image
Editor.
The MIRCat Application
Menu Bar
Workspace
Button Bar for Common Menu Functions
Tab Bar to Access Program Features
How to Set Up Your
MIRCat
Configuration Settings
MIRCat Preferences
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DICOM Storage
DICOM Q/R
Shared Image
Directory
Browser location
Preferred export
site to post MIRC
documents.
Location of MIRC
root dir.
Which template to
use as default.
MIRCat Tab Tour
Types of MIRC Documents
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Five default templates come with
MIRCat to help you build content:
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Basic article
Basic case
Basic index card
Teaching File Case
MIRC Standard Teaching File Case
Three Standard MIRC display
formats.
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Page
Tab
MIRCtf
Page Display
Tabbed Display
MIRC Teaching File Display
Guidelines
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The document types can be modified, that
is, elements can be added or subtracted.
The document types provide basic
structure to your content.
Decide which document type to use
depending on the content type.
Pick the suitable display format for your
content.
Demonstration
Let’s Build Our First TF Case
Procedure
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Launch MIRCat
Select from menu/icon for new document.
Default doc is MIRC TF
Begin to enter information into editor window
Select some images.
Modify images with editor
Drop images into document.
View on browser.
Submit when complete.
Let’s Begin
Palette and Image Insertion
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Image palette supports annotation
overlays on your images.
Using the Megasave option will save four
versions of your image:
Original DICOM image
 JPEG version
 JPEG version with annotation
 An thumbnail version of the image.
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Image Handling
Megasave
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JPEG/GIF
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Annotation image
Original image
Thumbnail image
DICOM image
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Jpeg
Jpeg annotation
DICOM
Thumbnail
Viewing Document in a
Browser
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Once you save the case in HTML you can open
it in your default browser.
This will provide you with the exact “look” of the
content before you upload to the MIRC server.
If you need to make changes, do so and resave
the document and HTML.
Remember, you can re-open old submissions
locally, make changes and resubmit the case
(provided you delete the original on the server)
DICOM Setup
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Storage service
AE title
 Port number
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Q/R
AE title of client
 AE title
 Host name
 Port number
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Exporting Documents
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When you’re ready to export your content,
select “export”.
You need to have set the address for a
storage service in your preferences.
The case directory will be zipped and
uploaded to your designated MIRC storage
site.
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Export to a local storage service
Export to selected storage service on another
PC.
Export across the “net” to a remote storage
service.
The case may be available for viewing
immediately (depending upon the admin
rules at the storage service)
RSNA Forum
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http://forums.rsna.org/
Please become part of the MIRC
community by using the MIRC forum
Please provide feedback!