• “Single-click” workflow* to streamline mammogram reading from opening a study to generating a report.
• Customized mammographic-specific reading and hanging protocol sequences (including multiple prior support)
• Incorporates expert viewing methodology including Tabár’s systematic viewing mask techniques* for searching for subtle radiographic abnormalities.
• 8 or more current and prior images are displayed immediately when the next study is opened, with multiple priors accessible by single click.
• Current images are high-lighted in all hanging protocols to minimize the risk of misdiagnosis from priors.
• Full-resolution image viewing navigated using a mouse wheel; visual tracing of pixels that have been viewed - no need to manually pan and zoom the images to view all pixels at full resolution.
• Electronic grease pen allows the radiologist to markup the image display any time; and automatically generate corresponding mammography recall form and/or screening report. Markup can be optionally exported to PACS.
• Range of modalities – FFDM, CR, digitized films, ultrasound and MRI; integrated CAD and GSPS display.
• Mammography film printing - including 10 and 12 bit grey-scale, true size, chest-wall alignment, annotation positioning, as required to meet the MQSA guidelines.

Enterprise features:

• Follows industry standards, compatible with IHE Mammo guidelines.
• Images and related information (such as mammo CAD structured reportsand markup defined in GSPS objects) can be pushed to the workstation, or can be retrieved from PACS.
• Two levels of pre-fetch – optimistic storage to local disk based on an expected worklist, plus caching to memory during the reading cycle using the interpretation worklist.
• Even with no user logged in, the system automatically pre-fetches studies.
• Application honors the security settings of the enterprise – so can work within the policies that an enterprise implements as part of its HIPAA compliance.

OEM vender features:

• Software-only install, so can easily be deployed in the field
• Runs on a range of Windows platforms (e.g., XP, XP-x64 and Vista)
• Low maintenance – system pre-fetches and cleans up data automatically.
• Stand-alone configuration tool (allowing service configuration of site settings).
• Customization capabilities include the ability to provide alternate mechanisms for triggering pre-fetch, worklist integration, and report export.

Technical data:

• Runs on Windows with the dotnet framework (2.0 at minimum).
• Recommended to be used with one color monitor for user navigation, and two high-resolution monitors (ideally 5MP) for primary diagnosis of mammograms.
• Displays greater than 256 grey levels on suitable monitors.
• Acts as a storage SCP in order to receive MG for-presentation studies, Mammography SR reports, GSPS (gray-scale softcopy presentation state) objects, and related images in classes such as SC (secondary capture), US (Ultrasound) and MR (Magnetic Resonance).
• Acts as storage SCU to output SC and GSPS for report or measurements.
• Optionally utilizes available modality worklist, general-purpose worklist, and reporting worklist as hints for up-coming studies (to trigger pre-fetch) and for composing an interpretation worklist.
• Optionally utilizes general-purpose performed procedure step to report progress in the reporting workflow.
• Optionally acts as a SCP for modality performed procedure step – so that an acquisition device can be configured to notify the workstation of completion of an acquisition.

* patent-pending technologies