CTP-MIRC Task List

This article is an unprioritized list of tasks for CTP and the MIRC plugin.

Implement the TCE Service
Implement the approval queue
Support running CTP as a Linux service.
Implement a credentials challenge if the user accesses a protected resource
Anonymizer for manual submissions to the File Service
Anonymizer for manual submissions to the Basic Author Tool
Anonymizer for manual submissions to the Zip Service
Automatically set the admin roles in CTP
myRSNAFiles support
Implement the Deleted Documents Manager
Implement a conversion utility for copying an old MIRC site to a new one.
Update all the wiki documentation and make the new MIRC the default.
Write a MIRCdocument submission utility to send a collection of MIRCdocuments to a site.
Implement a configuration editor.
Implement the DicomAnonymizer changes required by the latest Supplement 142 revision.
Suppress the context menu for Macs.
Write a MIRCdocument exporter/submitter with display capability.
Implement RadLex update
Multi-language support
Geneva final release
Remove unnecessary directories from CTP and use the jar instead
Convert to dcm4che2
Change index mechanism in the FileStorageService PipelineStage
Watermark PipelineStage
DICOM viewer for MIRC & FileStorageService PipelineStage
21CFR11 audit repository plugin / servlet
DicomComparator PipelineStage
Resave images with different WW/WL
DICOM WADO server for FileStorageService / MIRC plugin
DICOM CD Import Service
FileStorageService rebuild index
Check for spaces in alt-title
Highlight drop target in file cabinet
Sort out which collections to put in the left pane of the new UI
Remove document from conferences when it is deleted
Support video in file cabinets, author tools, and MIRCdocuments
Review Windows installer
Provide a site name on the Integrated UI page.
Support sorting on columns in the query results table
Implement QBE in query results table headers (with a plus-icon to trigger a popup)

1 From the CTP Task List

Improve DICOM Anonymizer script language: Rationalize the script language. Support true literals. Support recursive evaluation. Handle procesing of multi-valued elements better.
ApplicationExportService: Implement an ExportService which passes objects to an external application.
FileSystem selection for XmlObjects and ZipObjects: Implement the equivalent of fsNameTag for XmlObjects and ZipObjects in the FileStorageService.
Quarantine size: Improve the handling of large numbers of files in a quarantine.
Quarantine reasons: Provide a mechanism for a pipeline stage to indicate why it has quarantined an object. Add the feature to all the anonymizers. Support display of the reasons in the QuarantineServlet.
Login: Improve the security of the login process.
Add scripting to all anonymizer stages: Provide a more powerful selection mechanism for determining whether an object will be anonymized, along the lines of the filter stages, except that instead of quaranting objects which to not match the script, the anonymizers will pass the objects on unmodified.
Encryption key: Support a removable encryption key for the anonymizers.

2 From the MIRC Task List

Tagging: Implement tagging for images, files, and MIRCdocuments, with both RadLex and free text tags.
User-specific Author Service templates: Allow users to store their own author service templates for use in creating new MIRCdocuments. These templates would be in addition to the system-wide defaults. This will allow a user to tailor a template to exactly the kinds of documents he is producing, simplifying the process.
Multi-frame DICOM images: Support multi-frame DICOM images in the author services. Support the CT and MR enhanced DICOM objects.
Image collections: Implement a grouping mechanism for objects in the right pane of MSTF and tab formats, providing navigation among the groups.
Videos and document references: Add other image types, including standard video and also DICOM image sequences and stacks.; Allow viewers to be embedded in the right pane of the MSTF and tab formats.; Add Author Service support for hyperlinks to these and other document types within the body of a MIRCdocument.
Advanced author service: Remove the +/- button.; Support drag/drop from the file cabinet pane to the Images section.; Implement drag/drop for rearrangement of sections.; Implement drag/drop for rearrangement of items within a section.
Document display control: Provide a way to allow a user to change the display characteristics of a document while it is being displayed (background, icon display, format, etc.).; Create a new category of private section, visible only to trusted users.; Support resizing the panes in multi-paned display formats.; Always use full-size image; (eliminate the base images).
DICOM viewer: Implement a better DICOM viewer applet.
Standardize options when clicking images: Follow link; show annotation; DICOM header display.
Image Editor: Implement an image editor that will support flip, rotate, zoom, pan, and cropping of base images.; Support window width and level functions for DICOM objects as base images.
Installer: Simplify the installer.; Remove unnecessary questions.; Incorporate the ImageIO Tools in the MIRC release.

3 Release T36

Query speed: Change the indexing mechanism to improve the speed of multi-word queries.
Authentication: Implement application-level authentication using the eXist XML database.
User preferences: Save user preferences in the eXist XML database.
User viewing history: Track a user's viewing history and support obtaining query results based on whether the documents have been seen before. Allow the user to reset the viewing history.
User Management: Improve the user management mechanism to allow administrators to submit a large collection of new resident accounts more easily.

4 Release T37

RadLex / Keywords feature: Add support for RadLex terms in all author services. Implement a RadLex term browser for keywords and connect it to all document sections.
Double-click view of individual file in the Author Service: Download a double-clicked file with appropriate Content-Type. (This is operational in T26 for the File Service; implement it in the file cabinet pane of the Author Service editor.)
User comments input when viewing documents: Add an insert-comment element to the schema, allowing users who are viewing a document to add a comment to a document without being able to edit the document completely.

5 Release T38

Complete MIRC rewrite: Create a real open source build site with automatic nightly builds.; Implement formal coding standards for structure, javadocs, unit testing.; Abstract out all the natural language UI into language-specific modules.; Allow user to select natural language UI.; Improve the logging strategy to assist developers.; Improve authentication mechanism.; Allow schema to be defined at runtime.; Add PDF as a primary object type for teaching files.; Rewrite dicom.jar functions.; Implement XML database for index.

6 Unassigned Tasks

These tasks have not been assigned to a release. They are packaged in related groups, but this does not imply that an entire group must be implemented in a single release.

6.1 Clinical Trials Package

Many of the tasks that were in this section in earlier versions have been implemented in CTP. Because of the greater power of CTP for clinical trials, most clinical trial development will be concentrated there. The tasks remaining in this list may apply to both MIRC and CTP.

DICOM export to a selectable destination: Allow the administrator to export DICOM images to any DICOM Storage SCP, rather than just the ones configured in the trial.xml file.
DICOM Q/R SCP: Implement a DICOM query/retrieve SCP to allow DICOM workstations to access all DICOM objects on the storage service.
DICOM Q/R SCU: Implement a DICOM Q/R SCU to allow a user to view a PACS through the web server.

6.2 Query Service Package

Poll for active servers: Make query services poll their storage service list to determine which services are currently active, disabling selection of the inactive ones.
Storage service list schema: Standardize the way the storage service list can be communicated between MIRC query services. Support hiding private services.
Counter for query page accesses: Keep track of the number of times a query service has been accessed and show it on the query page.
Better searches of external search engines: Allow searches of external search engines to be triggered from the query results page.; Group all MIRC search fields together when searching external engines.

6.3 CME Package

CME Credit element: Extend MIRCdocument schema to allow display of CME credit value in query results. This task should be deferred until an interface to an external CME system is required.
CME external interface: Requires CME systems to publish an interface specification first.
SCORM export: Implement SCORM exporting in the XML server.
MIRCdocument UID: Provide UID for each MIRCdocument to allow use in CME.

6.4 Miscellaneous Tasks

Language-independent query fields: Make it possible for queries in one language to find documents written in another.
Review the schema for additional elements: Top-down review of display elements in general.
MIRC XML namespace: Support multiple namespaces to keep clinical trials metadata from colliding with MIRC schema elements.
ACR code service: An ACR code browser for the MIRC site, allowing a user to navigate all the ACR codes and find codes that correspond to specific anatomy and pathology.
MIRC keytool: Create an easy way for real certificates to be used in MIRC for clinical trials.
Backup function: Add a backup function to the admin service to allow a backup of the necessary files to be placed in a directory, possibly on another system.
Shared Directory Service: Implement a service to monitor a shared disk directory and automatically create MIRCdocuments from any objects found there.
Email Notification: Allow a user to specify an email address and a free text filter to select whether to send an email notification of the publication of a new document.
Documentation: Review and update all the wiki articles.; Make videos for installation, configuration, viewing, and authoring.
Case ranking: Provide a way to allow users to rank cases and obtain query results based on the rankings.
Case of the Day: Provide configuration options to allow random selection, most recent, or current list.