Manual creation of a new case

Video demonstration of creating a RadPix teaching file case using the Drag and Drop feature to create a case.

Click play to start.

Warning

Before uploading DICOM files to a public server, please verify that the images do not contain any patient information. This includes images with patient information in the image pixel data, and DICOM files with odd numbered (private tags) DICOM groups.

Review this information with your PACS administrator prior to uploading. Various software products can deidentify DICOM files.

Limit number of Images with Drag and Drop

When images are added via Drag and Drop, it uses up browser memory. The user may experience slow processing of image uploading if too many images are selected. The browser may also run out of memory and crash if too many images are added. In the event of a browser crash, just try again with a smaller number of images. Recommend limited the number of images to 400 at a time. If there are more than 400 images to upload, just add the remaining images by additional Drag and Drop until complete. Select the option to add images at the end of the case. The system will order the images by series automatically.

Step by Step Instructions

Web browsers have very limited access to a local computer’s files for security reasons. Because of this, it is not possible to drag/drop a “folder of folders” and have the browser upload all images within all thee folders.

The result is that the user may need to drag and drop groups of images separately from each folder into the RadPix window as shown in the video above.

Creating a New Case

Click the + icon in the upper left corner to create a new case

Complete Case information

Drag and Drop images into right side of panel.

Click Upload Images icon to add images to Case

Images courtesy of NBIA, https://imaging.nci.nih.gov/ncia/login.jsf

Review Images Before Uploading to the Server

Images are reviewed on the client PC prior to uploading.

Use scroll wheel to advance though images.

Region in pink on left shows the image DICOM tags. Review these fields to verify deidentification prior to uploading the server.

Icons from left to right

  • Advance to previous series
  • Mark current series as reviewed
  • Advance to Next series
  • Mark all images as reviewed
  • Number of images remaining to review
  • Total number of images.
Only DICOM tags with Patient Information.
Only DICOM Tags with Patient Information elements.
All DICOM tags.

Scroll through all images to verify no patient information in the image data, as shown in the image below.

Patient information is embedded in the DICOM image.

Click the delete button in left upper corner to remove images with patient information embedded in the image.

After review of of the images and DICOM headers, click the green save icon to upload images to the server.

After uploading images, the text for the case can be added.

Click bars on left to edit text for History, Findings, Discussion, Diagnosis, etc.

Image editing and annotation tools

Invert, Pointer, Zoom, Window/Level, Crop, Blackout, Circle, Paint, Arrow, Text, Line, Measure

Set Case as Complete

Case will now appear in the Completed Cases section