MIRC 2004 How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents

1. MIRC 2004How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents

2. Course Objectives • “Brief” Overview of MIRC 2004. • MIRC Concepts and Lexicon. • Overview of the Authoring process. • Practice… Practice… Practice!!! • Questions

3. Brief Survey! • Who has used MIRC to access cases/information? • Who has a MIRC site at their institution/practice? • Who has tried authoring a teaching file case for a MIRC?

4. What is a MIRC Anyhow? Medical Imaging Resource Center

5. MIRC Concepts • MIRC is an RSNA sponsored initiative. • A continual work in progress. • Built in the spirit of the open-source community. • The key technical 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.

6. 2004 MIRC InfoRad Courses • MIRC: How to Set Up a System for Teaching Files, Conferences, and Clinical Trials • MIRC: How to Author MIRC Teaching Files • MIRC Case Studies: Using MIRC Software for Education and Research

7. MIRC Objective • MIRC objectives reach beyond TF. • Support the production, storage, indexing and distribution of medical imaging resources: • Teaching files • Scientific & technical documentation • Research images & datasets • Clinical trials data

8. 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. • Display support for other types in the future…

9. The MIRC Schemas • MIRCdocument • Format for documents on the RSNA site. • Format for Index Cards on the RSNA site. • MIRCquery & MIRCqueryresponse • Format for communication between Query Services and Storage Service Indexes. • MIRCsiteindex • Format for remote site indexing.

10. MIRC Server Components • Query Service • An entry point into the MIRC community for a user on the Internet. • Creates/transmits using MIRCquery schema. • Storage Service • A cooperating information library. • Index: the library’s card catalog. • Server: the library’s shelves. • Responds to MIRCquery using the MIRCqueryresponse schema.

11. MIRC User Query Service MIRC site Index RSNA site Internet Server Index MIRC site Index Index Server Server Server MIRC site

12. MIRC query can be customized by theme

16. Types of MIRC Documents • MIRC uses templates that display your content in a uniform manner. • You can create you own! • Four Standard MIRC display formats. • Standard Teaching File Template • Page Format Document Template • Tab Format Document Template • Tab Format Document Template – Option 2

17. Page Format

18. Page Format

19. Tabbed Display

20. MIRC Standard Teaching File (mstf)

21. Non-Standard Display

22. Non-Standard Display

23. Non-Standard Display

24. Guidelines • 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.

25. Enough Talk!!! How do we Author???

26. Authoring Process • Authoring requires assembling images and text to submit to MIRC storage service. • Old Method - Used a client side java app called MIRCat and Java installed on client. • New Method – Only requires a web browser only to assemble and edit content.

27. Features of New Authoring Tool • No client side application needed. • Uses a web browser only. • New file cabinet feature • Upload content to a personal file cabinet. • Select images from cabinet to populate into document.

28. Step 1 - Startup • Launch your browser and point it to the RSNA MIRC demo server. • http://mirc.rsna.org/demo? • You will see the familiar MIRC query front page. • Concentrate on the buttons on the right of the window. • The two that we will concentrate on are: • Author Service • My Files

29. Before We Make Our First Case…. We need to populate our personal file cabinet with images

30. Step 2 – Enter the File Cabinet • Left click on the My File button on the MIRC query page. • You will be provided with a login prompt. • Use your assigned login/password combination.

31. Welcome to your File Cabinet! • Screen should look like this. • Note: my cabinet is empty! • We need to fill it with content. • First let’s look at the features.

32. Anatomy of the File Cabinet A display to show your content Adding content Use to find content that you have labelled Free Text Field for use with Update & Find Buttons Export content back to your PC Delete content Use to label or tag content for easier use

33. Step 3 – Add Content • Click on your add button. • You will see this page. • Press the Browse button for content. • In this case, content is in the My Pictures folder of My Documents. • Open My Pictures and left click on a file. • Left click on Open. • The path to your file is shown in the dialog box. • Left click on Submit and the file is uploaded from your desktop to your cabinet.

34. File Cabinet • If successful, your window will display your image. • If you left click on your image it will outline in red. • You can implement other functions (e.g. delete, update, export) on your selected image.

35. File Cabinet – label content • If you want to label your image. • Left click on it to select it. • Type something descriptive in the text box. • Press Update. Lobar hemorrhage

36. File Cabinet – find content • To find a file based on a label. • Enter part of the label in the text box. • Press Find • MIRC finds your image and outlines it. Lobar

37. Add More Images! • Repeat the add process a few more times to build up some content. • What if you want to add more than one image at once? • How about an entire collection? • Use a archive compression program like WinZip to create a ZIP archive. • Use the Add function to upload the ZIP file. • MIRC will automatically decompress the file and display all your images. • Try some of the ZIP files in you’re my Pictures Directory.

38. And for other filetypes A Collection! Native DICOM support

39. Step 4 – Build a Document • Go back to the MIRC query page. • This time select Author Service button. • MIRC may ask for your login/password combination again.

40. The Default Author Page • This page records the default author info associated with your login. • Enter your: • Name • Affiliation • Email • You can select which template to use. • Use the Standard • Press submit.

41. Blank Document Stage • After submitting your author information the storage service provides a blank slate to begin composing your content. • A lot of fields, subtle differences depending upon type of template chosen. • Doc name • Title of document • Abstract • History • Findings • Diagnosis • Discussion • References • Anatomy • ACR Code • Category • Organ System • Modality • Level • Access

42. Left slider pans through the blank document fields Right slider pans through images in your file cabinet Pull slider to bottom to see end of document Click Submit Changes every time you update content

43. Step 5 – Enter Text • Enter some text into each of the document fields. • Fill in name, title, history, findings, diagnosis. • For now, don’t worry about the quality of the content! • Remember to press the Submit Changes button periodically. • If you are familiar with HTML, you can embed HTML tags into your text to modify its appearance (e.g. <B> <I> etc.) • Note that MIRC sends you back to the document editor after you press Submit Changes.

44. Your Author information is automatically populated on the form.

45. Step 6 – Put in some images • Adding images is easy!!! • Select one or more images from your preview pane with a left click. • Selected image is highlighted with red border. • Use key combination of Control + left click to pick more than one image. • Shift + left click to pick a range of images. • Press “Submit Changes” and look for the result.

46. Left Click selects one image Shift + Left Click selects a range of images. Shift + Left Click selects a range of images. Shift + Left Click selects a range of images. Left Click selects one image Control + Left Click selects more than one image Press “Submit Changes” to see the results.

47. Scroll down to see your images in the document

48. Step 7 – Preview Your Case • Go back to the MIRC query page (if you still have it open). • Perform a query for your document. • You can type your name into the author box to save time and only find your case. • The query result should provide a link to your recently authored case!

49. Type in your author name into the query field Left Click on the link to view your case flanders

50. Template Features • The MIRC template brings your case to life! • Tabs organize the content into themes. • You can navigate through imageset via icons in the lower left or by next/prior arrows. • The document tab has links which allow you (and only you!) to delete or edit this document.