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A web-based multidisciplinary team meeting visualisation system

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Abstract

Purpose

Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs) are the standard of care for safe, effective patient management in modern hospital-based clinical practice. Medical imaging data are often the central discussion points in many MDTs, and these data are typically visualised, by all participants, on a common large display. We propose a Web-based MDT visualisation system (WMDT-VS) to allow individual participants to view the data on their own personal computing devices with the potential to customise the imaging data, i.e. different view of the data to that of the common display, for their particular clinical perspective.

Methods

We developed the WMDT-VS by leveraging the state-of-the-art Web technologies to support four MDT visualisation features: (1) 2D and 3D visualisations for multiple imaging modality data; (2) a variety of personal computing devices, e.g. smartphone, tablets, laptops and PCs, to access and navigate medical images individually and share the visualisations; (3) customised participant visualisations; and (4) the addition of extra local image data for visualisation and discussion.

Results

We outlined these MDT visualisation features on two simulated MDT settings using different imaging data and usage scenarios. We measured compatibility and performances of various personal, consumer-level, computing devices.

Conclusions

Our WMDT-VS provides a more comprehensive visualisation experience for MDT participants.

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Notes

  1. https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/1.0/.

  2. https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/.

  3. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455.

  4. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818.

  5. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951.

  6. https://github.com/FNNDSC/ami.

  7. https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/.

  8. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627.

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded in part by Australian Research Council (LP140100686).

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  1. Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology Research Group, School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Hoijoon Jung, Younhyun Jung, David Dagan Feng, Michael Fulham & Jinman Kim

  2. Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    David Dagan Feng

  3. Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Michael Fulham

  4. Department of Molecular Imaging, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia

    Michael Fulham

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Jung, H., Jung, Y., Feng, D.D. et al. A web-based multidisciplinary team meeting visualisation system. Int J CARS 14, 2221–2231 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-019-01999-x

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