Bradley J. Erickson MD, PhD, Presenter: Stockholder, Evidentia Health, Inc

1) Become familiar with the RSNA Clinical Trials Processor Software, including how to configure it to accomplish the common tasks, including, deidentification for internal research or education, deidentification and forwarding to an external site for multi-site trials. 2) Learn how to optimize configurations and pipelines for variants of the above major categories of tasks.

CTP is a powerful software tool that is useful for supporting education and research. CTP has a pipeline approach to handling data. It can receive DICOM images using DICOM transports, but can also get DICOM images from a directory/filesystem. It can then modify the header elements according to rules defined by the user. It can replace Protected Health Information (PHI) in one of several ways, to help assure HIPAA compliance. PHI can be located in many parts of a DICOM object, and the many variants, and ways that CTP can address those will be described. CTP can also do basic processing on any other DICOM tag, if required. At the end of the pipeline, CTP can then send the images using DICOM, store them into a filesystem, or transmit them to another CTP instance using HTTP. Example configurations and the advantages of each will be described.  

Erickson, B, Right Workflow: Workflow Engines and Lexicon.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14001864.html