DICOM for Clinical Research: PACS-Integrated Electronic Data Capture in Multi-Center Trials.

ABSTRACT: Providing surrogate endpoints in clinical trials, medical imaging has become increasingly important in human-centered research. Nowadays, electronic data capture systems (EDCS) are used but binary image data is integrated insufficiently. There exists no structured way, neither to manage digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) data in EDCS nor to interconnect EDCS with picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Manual detours in the trial workflow yield errors, delays, and costs. In this paper, requirements for a DICOM-based system interconnection of EDCS and research PACS are analysed. Several workflow architectures are compared. Optimized for multi-center trials, we propose an entirely web-based solution integrating EDCS, PACS, and DICOM viewer, which has been impl

SUBMITTER: Haak D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4570903 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature