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iScout: An Intelligent Scout for Accessing and Navigating Large Image Sets in a PACS

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A new software tool for PACS, called iScout (intelligent scout), has been developed and optimized for a radiology workstation. The purpose of iScout is to display an overview of a large image series, allowing the user to select images for priority downloading from a PACS server to a PACS workstation. This allows radiologists to reduce the delays that are associated with downloading hundreds or even thousands of images. Several schemes that semiautomatically manage the download process are presented along with tests to measure performance. The results of the tests confirm that priority downloading provides faster access to images in large image series and that the time savings increase in proportion to the study size.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the McKesson staff—including Len Grenier, Warren Edwards, Allan Noordvyk, David Branson, David Heaney, Mahmoud Ramze–Rezaee, and the Emerald team—for valuable advice on this research. Financial support from the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute is also gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Medical Imaging Group, McKesson Information Solutions, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

    Adam Weathermon B.A.Sc., Jonathan Tsui B.Sc. & Robert Rohling Ph.D.

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada

    Robert Rohling Ph.D.

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Weathermon, A., Tsui, J. & Rohling, R. iScout: An Intelligent Scout for Accessing and Navigating Large Image Sets in a PACS. J Digit Imaging 17, 109–119 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-004-1005-7

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