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 Note: This page is currently a work in progress.  This note will be removed once documentation is considered mostly complete.  

Overview

The basic outline of steps required to utilize CTP include:

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It's possible you may not actually need to install anything prior to using CTP and there are only 2 potential things you may need to obtain prior to using CTP:

1. Java

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   1.5 (or better) JRE must be present on the system. Java 1.6 is recommended.  Note that only the JRE is required, not the JDK, and therefore this is already installed on most typical computers.
2. If you wish to utilize some of CTP's advanced functionality you must also install the Java Advanced Imaging ImageIO Tools.

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   1. Note that this is not required if all you wish to do is use CTP to de-identify DICOM images or submit de-identified images to NBIA. These tools are required if you want to use CTP to view images, or to create JPG thumbnails during the processing pipeline.
   2. Installation of the ImageIO tools in Linux requires some additional steps not outlined in Sun's installation instructions. See this page insert link for more information.

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1. http://mircwiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=CTP-The_RSNA_Clinical_Trial_Processor

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    - The official RSNA wiki site that is updated regularly by the developer of CTP. This always contains the latest bleeding edge release of CTP.
2. NBIA GForge files archive - The National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA) software's download site lists all the binaries for installing NBIA. Each release of NBIA includes a .zip distribution of CTP (e.g. "nbia_CTP_Client_5.0.1.zip". This version usually lags behind the RSNA site but has been tested for compatibility with the latest NBIA release.

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Once you configured the import pipeline, you can launch CTP service using the launcher located in the installation directory – see the directions on running CTP here: http://mircwiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=CTP-The_RSNA_Clinical_Trial_Processor#Running_CTP.

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You should use the web interface of CTP to monitor the progress of transmission. You can also use it to change your deidentification script, check the mapping of subject IDs, and shutdown the CTP service once the transmission is finished.

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The RSNA site's documentation contains detailed information on customizing CTP based on your incoming data source.

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Importing from local hard drive

You can use the utility FileSender http://mircwiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=FileSender

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to send the original data from your hard drive to CTP. Considering you configured CTP to listen on port 24104 as described in the config file above, you can set the Destination field in FileSender to dicom://CTP:FS@localhost:24104, choose the directory on the left panel, and send the data to CTP.

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CTP contains a number of specialized processing "pipelines" for modifying the contents of your data. Again the RSNA wiki site explains all of the CTP Processors

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in full detail, but below you will find a list of the most common types of processing pipelines and a short summary of their function:

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Full details relating to how each of these can be customized along with the other export methods can be found on the RSNA wiki in the Export Services

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section and the Storage Service

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section respectively.