[Insight-users] Re: POSTING IMAGES TO ITK USERS LIST : Use MyPACS

[Raghavendra Chandrashekara]

Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
> It is quite common for us to need to share images
> while we are tracking problems with applications
> using ITK.
>
> There are two difficulties for sharing data through
> the users list:
>
> A) The ITK users list has a limit of 40Kb for
>    every message
>
> B) The images will not be conserved in the
>    mailing-list archive.
>
> A more convenient method is to use a resource that has
> been made freely available by RSNA and a NIH grant.
>
> This is a public repository of medical images where any
> user can create an account and store images in multiple
> formats. This repository provides the typical services of
> a PACS system but it is freely accessible through the web.
>
> Please go to MyPACS:
>
>           http://www . mypacs . net
>
> and create an account by making up a username and password.
>
> Then submit there the images that you  want to share/show,
> and finally post to the ITK users list the IDs of the images
> you want us to see.
>
> A nice functionality in MyPacs is that you can add extra
> information as comments, diagnosis.. etc. You can also
> regulate what infomation is public and what information
> is private.
>
> If you are in the US note that all information allowing to
> identify a patient should be protected according to HIPAA
> regulations:
>
>              http://www . hhs . gov/ocr/hipaa/
>
> It is your responsibility to make sure that the data posted
> on the web adhere to HIPAA norms.
>
> Images posted in MyPacs are automatically indexed by the
> RSNA Medical Image Resource Center (MIRC).
>
>              http://mirc . rsna . org/mirc/query
>
> so they become study cases for training.
>
>
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>
> Please let us know if you find any difficulties using
> MyPacs, or if you have better suggestions for a data
> sharing mechanism,
>
>
>   Thanks
>
>
>     Luis
>
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Hi Luis,

Thanks for this info.

Raghavendra