Are you familiar with our medical clinical cases database e-Cases? It’s fundamental to share knowledge and feedback between health professionals, especially in radiology. Indeed, the radiologist must use clinical cases for training to verify and deepen his knowledge and skills.
Contributing a case contributes to the available clinical case base and helps build a large collection of images into a comprehensive, high-quality resource for radiologists worldwide.
This article is a guide that describes the steps for creating clinical cases within channels.
Create a clinical case (public or private)
To create a clinical case, it’s very simple: log in to your IMAIOS account and click on "My cases". You can also go directly to the case editing page.
Click on "upload new case":
Upload your images
Once in the case editor, you can either drag and drop your files, import them from a file or with a URL or dropbox. Clinical case images can be DICOM files, jpeg or png images. If they include several series, your images will be displayed in multiple windows.
Write the report
In the right part of the case editor you need to fill in the different fields:
- Case title
- Author(s), Orcid number and affiliationsAfd
Add a bookmark
For the report itself and in order to facilitate reading, we recommend that you divide it into several parts, for example: Anamnesis, Diagnosis, Results and Key points.
"Add a bookmark" is finally available: you can now create a bookmark on the series you are selecting. You just have to name your bookmark and in one click you will find the selected image.
Add annotations
You can also add annotations to a series’ slice which allows you to highlight areas and important points. The available annotation shapes are rectangle, ellipse and arrow.
Personal data
Before publishing your case, all personal data contained in the DICOM as metadata is completely removed, both on the client and server side. So when a case is published, the image is completely anonymized.
You can preview your case before publishing it on the clinical case channel of your choice. Your case will be "pending approval". The administrator of the channel you have selected will have to approve your case or ask you to modify it providing details about the corrections needed for the case to be approved.
Upon approval, the case will be visible on the clinical case channel, whether public or private.
Feel free to enhance our collaborative database of clinical cases by publishing your cases on public IMAIOS channels.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The IMAIOS team
contact@imaios.com
