Image migration: measured retrieval rates

Robert M. Witt

doi:10.1117/12.713673

21 March 2007 Image migration: measured retrieval rates

Robert M. Witt

Proceedings Volume 6516, Medical Imaging 2007: PACS and Imaging Informatics; 65161A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.713673
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

When the Indianapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center changed Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) vendors, we chose to use "on demand" image migration as the more cost effective solution. The legacy PACS stores the image data on optical disks in multi-platter jukeboxes. The estimated size of the legacy image data is about 5 terabytes containing studies from ~1997 to ~2003. Both the legacy and the new PACS support a manual DICOM query/retrieve. We implemented workflow rules to determine when to fetch the relevant priors from the legacy PACS. When a patient presents for a new radiology study, we used the following rules to initiate the manual DICOM query/retrieve. For general radiography we retrieved the two most recent prior examinations and for the modalities MR and CT we retrieved the clinically relevant prior examinations. We monitored the number of studies retrieved each week for about a 12 month period. For our facility which performs about 70,000 radiology examinations per year, we observed an essentially constant retrieval rate of slightly less than 50 studies per week. Some explanations for what may be considered an anomalous result maybe related to the fact that we are a tertiary care facility and a teaching hospital.

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Robert M. Witt "Image migration: measured retrieval rates", Proc. SPIE 6516, Medical Imaging 2007: PACS and Imaging Informatics, 65161A (21 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.713673

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