MedXViewer: an extensible web-enabled software package for medical imaging

P. T. Looney; K. C. Young; Alistair Mackenzie; Mark D. Halling-Brown

doi:10.1117/12.2042464

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11 March 2014 MedXViewer: an extensible web-enabled software package for medical imaging

P. T. Looney, K. C. Young, Alistair Mackenzie, Mark D. Halling-Brown

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Proceedings Volume 9037, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 90371K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042464
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

MedXViewer (Medical eXtensible Viewer) is an application designed to allow workstation-independent, PACS-less viewing and interaction with anonymised medical images (e.g. observer studies). The application was initially implemented for use in digital mammography and tomosynthesis but the flexible software design allows it to be easily extended to other imaging modalities. Regions of interest can be identified by a user and any associated information about a mark, an image or a study can be added. The questions and settings can be easily configured depending on the need of the research allowing both ROC and FROC studies to be performed. The extensible nature of the design allows for other functionality and hanging protocols to be available for each study. Panning, windowing, zooming and moving through slices are all available while modality-specific features can be easily enabled e.g. quadrant zooming in mammographic studies. MedXViewer can integrate with a web-based image database allowing results and images to be stored centrally. The software and images can be downloaded remotely from this centralised data-store. Alternatively, the software can run without a network connection where the images and results can be encrypted and stored locally on a machine or external drive. Due to the advanced workstation-style functionality, the simple deployment on heterogeneous systems over the internet without a requirement for administrative access and the ability to utilise a centralised database, MedXViewer has been used for running remote paper-less observer studies and is capable of providing a training infrastructure and co-ordinating remote collaborative viewing sessions (e.g. cancer reviews, interesting cases).

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P. T. Looney, K. C. Young, Alistair Mackenzie, and Mark D. Halling-Brown "MedXViewer: an extensible web-enabled software package for medical imaging", Proc. SPIE 9037, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 90371K (11 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042464

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