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An increasing adoption of electronic medical records has made information more accessible to clinicians and researchers
through dedicated systems such as HIS, RIS and PACS. The speed and the amount at which information are generated in
a multi-institutional clinical study make the problem complicated compared to day-to-day hospital workflow. Often,
increased access to the information does not translate into the efficient use of that information. Therefore, it becomes
crucial to establish models which can be used to organize and visualize multi-disciplinary data. Good visualization in
turn makes it easy for clinical decision-makers to reach a conclusion within a small span of time. In a clinical study
involving multi-disciplinary data and multiple user groups who need access to the same data and presentation states
based on the stage of the clinical trial or the task are crucial within the workflow. Therefore, in order to demonstrate the
conceptual system design and system workflow, we will be presenting a clinical trial based on application of proton
beam for radiosurgery which will utilize our proposed system. For demonstrating user role and visualization design
purposes, we will be focusing on three different user groups which are researchers involved in patient enrollment and
recruitment, clinicians involved in treatment and imaging review and lastly the principle investigators involved in
monitoring progress of clinical study. Also datasets for each phase of the clinical study including preclinical and clinical
data as it related to subject enrollment, subject recruitment (classifier), treatment (DICOM), imaging, and pathological
analysis (protein staining) of outcomes.
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