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SIIM Technical Resources

SIIM Resources:

• SIIM Expert Hotline Archive

• SIIM Open Source Resources

• Imaging Informatics

• SIIM Presentations from SIIM/SCAR Meetings and Conferences

• SIIM Top Ten Lists

• SIIM PACS Consultants List

• SIIM Practical Imaging Informatics Foundations and Applications for PACS Professionals Textbook

• Spotlight on StIIMulus - ARRA (American Recovery & Re-investment Act of 2009)

• SIIM University and SIIM Primers

• SIIM Vendor Provider Partnership Program 

• SIIM Radiology Informatics Fellowship List

• Radiology Informatics Fellowship Curriculum

• Related Links

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SIIM White Papers:

• Addressing the Coming Radiology Crisis: The SIIM Transforming the Radiological Interpretation Process (TRIP™) Initiative — A Position Paper from the SCAR TRIP™ Subcommittee

• Irreversible Compression of Medical Images White Paper from the SIIM Research and Development Committee

Imaging Informatics Resources

Transition to Digital Mammography

• Going Digital: The IHE Guide for Mammography

• How to transition to digital mammography. Zuley M. J Am Coll Radiol. 2007;4(3):178-83 J Am Coll Radiol 2007;4(3):178-83

• Image quality in digital mammography: image acquisition. Williams MB, Yaffe MJ, Maidment AD, Martin MC, Seibert JA, Pisano ED. J Am Coll Radiol. 2007;3(8):589-608

• Storage, transmission, and retrieval of digital mammography, including recommendations on image compression. Avrin D, Morin R, Piraino D, Rowberg A, Detorie N, Zuley M, Seibert JA, Pisano ED. J Am Coll Radiol. 2007;3(8):609-14

• Digital mammography image quality: image display. Siegel E, Krupinski E, Samei E, Flynn M, Andriole K, Erickson B, Thomas J, Badano A, Seibert JA, Pisano ED. J Am Coll Radiol. 2007;3(8):615-27

• A comparative study of conventional mammography film interpretations with soft copy readings of the same examinations. Gitlin JN, Narayan AK, Mitchell CA, Akmal AM, Eisner DJ, Peterson LM, Nie D, McClintock TR. J Digit Imaging. 2007;20(1):42-52

• Soft copy versus hard copy reading in digital mammography. Obenauer S, Hermann KP, Marten K, Luftner-Nagel S, von Heyden D, Skaane P, Grabbe E. J Digit Imaging. 2004;16(4):341-4
  

Selecting Monitors

• Assessment of Display Performance for Medical Imaging Systems - AAPM Task Group 18 Report
  
• Tutorial on Equipment Selection: PACS Equipment Overview, Radiographics 2004; 24:879-889
  
• Compton, Kenneth: "Image Performance in CRT Displays", SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering, Volume TT54. 2003 SPIE
  

RFPs

• RFP for PACS and CR acquisition, installation and service University of Pennsylvania Radiology Website  
  

Tutorials

• "IHE for the Impatient - A Tutorial"

Do you want to learn about IHE, how it relates to DICOM and HL7, but don't want to haul around 60 pounds of paper to do so? If you answered, "Yes", to all the above you are in the right place.Click here to a Web page that consists of a Concept Map of IHE Radiology Actors.

Imaging Informatics Resources in Collaboration with Other Societies

• ACR Practice Guideline for Digital Radiography

• ACR Practice Guideline for Determinants of Image Quality in Digital Mammography

• ACR Practice Guideline for Electronic Medical Information Privacy & Security

• ACR Technical Standard for Electronic Practice of Medical Imaging

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National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health Resources:

caBIG - Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

NLM Insight - Segmentation & Registration Toolkit — Library of important image processing algorithms available in open source form

National Cancer Institute Biomedical Imaging Program

National Medical Library of Medicine — Free Medline

NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

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FDA, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)

Medical Product Safety Network (MedSun) - Information on IT devices that interconnect with medical devices as it relates to patient safety issues