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RadWriter
Joined: 26 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Poor Comparison Hanging |
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I know that Fuji has a very good mechanism for automated comparison hanging, but it requires maintaining a list of related procedures.
For each procedure name that an institution has used, e.g., CXR2V, a file is maintained on the Synapse server that lists all other plain film Chest studies that should compare. (The files are placed on the Fuji server by the PACS administrator.) When a current study is read, Synapse looks into the file whose name corresponds to the study name, finds what procedures match the patient's historical studies, and supplies priors according to the hanging protocol of choice. The problem is that maintaining a list of related procedures is manual, and very incomplete.
For my research I want to know what other PACS companies are doing to automate this small but important mechanism. |
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Emile
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:57 am Post subject: Re: Poor Comparison Hanging |
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| RadWriter wrote: | I know that Fuji has a very good mechanism for automated comparison hanging, but it requires maintaining a list of related procedures.
For each procedure name that an institution has used, e.g., CXR2V, a file is maintained on the Synapse server that lists all other plain film Chest studies that should compare. (The files are placed on the Fuji server by the PACS administrator.) When a current study is read, Synapse looks into the file whose name corresponds to the study name, finds what procedures match the patient's historical studies, and supplies priors according to the hanging protocol of choice. The problem is that maintaining a list of related procedures is manual, and very incomplete.
For my research I want to know what other PACS companies are doing to automate this small but important mechanism. |
As far as I know only Sectra, GE and Fuji do have at the moment mechanisms to solve this problem. Indeed the modalitys send different information concerning the performed procedures in the DICOM header files which lead to this big problem. This is what really mathers for radiologists. There has to be a parsing to solve this major problem. Pacs which can not manage this item are for bigger institutes, which use apparates from different vendors, not workable.
I must say that I am only informed in the Dutch/ European market, but formentioned vendors are worldmarket leaders.
Maintaining this list by hand will be finished as soon as IHE manages to get all noses in the wright direction concerning naming of procedures and where to put this information. |
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