MIRC: Medical Imaging Resource Center

MIRC is een nieuw initiatief van de RSNA met als doel uitwisseling van beelden en informatie voor educatie, research en kliniek.

Medical Imaging Resource Center
Purpose: The MIRC project began with the goal of enabling the medical imaging community to share images and information for education, research and clinical practice. Originally conceived as a central point of storage for such information, MIRC has evolved into a design for a community of libraries linked together through a common index searchable via the Internet. This linking of materials will also encourage convergence on standard formats for images and associated textual information.

Resources: MIRC will provide the tools that will make it easy for sites with existing bodies of information to share them through a central point of access. For authors of new material, it will provide a structured format for teaching files and other documents to ensure that they can be indexed and made accessible using medically significant criteria. For users of these materials, MIRC will provide a Web-browser-based search mechanism that allows free-text queries and searches on medically significant criteria such as patient age and sex, anatomical region, modality, image format, and peer-reviewed status. Sponsored and coordinated by RSNA, MIRC will be a distributed development project, encouraging participation from across the entire medical imaging community.