Unlocking the PACS DICOM Domain for its Use in Clinical Research Data Warehouses.

ABSTRACT: Clinical Data Warehouses (DWHs) are used to provide researchers with simplified access to pseudonymized and homogenized clinical routine data from multiple primary systems. Experience with the integration of imaging and metadata from picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), however, is rare. Our goal was therefore to analyze the viability of integrating a production PACS with a research DWH to enable DWH queries combining clinical and medical imaging metadata and to enable the DWH to display and download images ad hoc. We developed an application interface that enables to query the production PACS of a large hospital from a clinical research DWH containing pseudonymized data. We evaluated the performance of bulk extracting metadata from the PACS to the DWH and the performance of

SUBMITTER: Kaspar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7522145 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature