Keywords:
Computer applications, eHealth, Management, PACS, RIS, Teleradiology, Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis, Structured reporting, Epidemiology
Authors:
D. J. Vining1, U. I. S. E. N. Salem1, C. Popovici2, L. Jiang3, C. DURAN4, A. Pitici2, I. Aghenitei2, M. Jurca2, R. Rosu2; 1Houston, TX/US, 2Chapel Hill, NC/US, 3Beijing/CN, 4ISTANBUL/TR
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2013/B-0141
Purpose
We developed a structured reporting system,
called ViSion,
which allows a radiologist to capture key images and tag those images with diagnostic information to generate a multimedia structured report (Figure 1) (1).
The operation of the ViSion system is the topic of another EPOS poster,
“A ViSion for Global Multimedia Structured Reporting.”
Fig. 1: Example of a ViSion structured report. Key images are tagged with anatomy and pathology terms. Each diagnosis is assigned a priority value that can be used for automatic notification of critical results.
The ontology (i.e.,
a controlled vocabulary with defined relationships among the terms) that is used to tag images in ViSion is managed with an integrated software authoring tool which is the subject of this exhibit.
The tagging of images with this ontology can either be performed automatically by applying natural language processing to dictated descriptions,
or manually by having the radiologist use pull-down menus in the ViSion system.
The ViSion ontology also supports electronic billing,
translation of reports to multiple languages,
critical results notification,
and data mining.