Looney P T, Young K C, Halling-Brown M D
NCCPM, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XX, UK
NCCPM, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XX, UK Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2016 Jun;169(1-4):32-7. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncv482. Epub 2015 Nov 30.
MedXViewer (Medical eXtensible Viewer) has been developed to address the need for workstation-independent, picture archiving and communication system (PACS)-less viewing and interaction with anonymised medical images. The aim of this paper is to describe the design and features of MedXViewer as well as to introduce the new features available in the latest release (version 1.2). MedXViewer currently supports digital mammography and tomosynthesis. The flexible software design used to develop MedXViewer allows it to be easily extended to support other imaging modalities. Regions of interest can be drawn 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. Complex tree-like questions can be asked where a given answer presents the user to new questions. The hanging protocol can be specified 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 digital mammography and tomosynthesis studies. MedXViewer can integrate with a web-based image database OPTIMAM Medical Image Database allowing results and images to be stored centrally. The software can, alternatively, run without a network connection where the images and results can be encrypted and stored locally on a machine or external drive. MedXViewer has been used for running remote paper-less observer studies and is capable of providing a training infrastructure and coordinating remote collaborative viewing sessions.
MedXViewer（医学可扩展查看器）的开发旨在满足无需依赖工作站、无需 Picture Archiving and Communication System（PACS）即可查看和交互匿名医学图像的需求。本文旨在描述 MedXViewer 的设计和功能，并介绍最新版本（1.2 版）中的新功能。MedXViewer 目前支持数字乳腺摄影和断层合成。用于开发 MedXViewer 的灵活软件设计使其能够轻松扩展以支持其他成像模式。用户可以绘制感兴趣区域，并可以添加有关标记、图像或研究的任何相关信息。可以根据研究需要轻松配置问题和设置，从而能够进行 ROC 和 FROC 研究。可以提出复杂的树状问题，其中给定答案会引导用户进入新问题。可以为每个研究指定挂起协议。平移、窗宽调整、缩放和切片浏览均可用，同时可以轻松启用特定模式的功能，例如在数字乳腺摄影和断层合成研究中进行象限缩放。MedXViewer 可以与基于网络的图像数据库 OPTIMAM Medical Image Database 集成，从而将结果和图像集中存储。或者，该软件可以在无网络连接的情况下运行，此时图像和结果可以加密并本地存储在机器或外部驱动器上。MedXViewer 已用于运行远程无纸化观察者研究，并且能够提供培训基础设施并协调远程协作查看会话。
