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Dear NBIA Users,
 
We are 're pleased to announce the release of version 4.4 of the National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA), available at http://imaging.nci.nih.gov.  This release includes a huge number of improvements to both significantly improves end user functionality and back end administration toolsas explained below.  Below is a list of the new features:

Create and share custom lists of images

NBIA now has the capability to A logged-in user can now create a "Shared List" , which allows a logged-in user to create that forms a saved list of image series which can be easily shared with colleagues or published in journal articles for convenient access to the exact set of data used by the list creator.  It can be created based on cases added to your Data Basket or by uploading a CSV spreadsheet of the series UIDs for the images. Users Other users can then retrieve your list for download by searching on the name that it was assigned. 

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Improved Quality Control and Reporting

The QC Tool (Quality Control) has been a completely redesigned to improve performance and usability.  It now includes the ability to quickly scan image series via the Cine tool Tool as you perform QC as well as a new worklist-driven interface to improve productivity.  An administrative deletion function has also been added to make it much easier to clean cleaning the system of image submission errors.  This functionality is role-based and allows for , allowing initial deletion by QC analysts, but allows for permitting an archive administrator to make final approvals to ensure data is never deleted by accidentprevent accidental deletions.

In addition to these quality control and image management features the reporting , Reporting functionality has been improved as well.  Using the Submission Report tool administrators can easily tell when images arrived, which collection they belong to, and how many patients/studies/series/images were submitted.  The report Report has two seperate views.  The first is an Image-based view which allows you to drill drilling down through the identifiers of the images in order to troubleshoot any submission problems.  There is also an Accrual-based view which is geared towards easily building reports to show toward easy reporting of submission statistics.



 

Better integration with collection metadata

 
The NBIA search Search interface now includes tooltips tool-tips next to each Collection name which can be clicked to view a short description of their scientific value.  Within each tooltip tool-tip there is also the ability to add links to external resources, such as a wiki or publication site which has even more information and metadata relating to the images.  The "Collection Descriptions" link on the left can also be configured to point to a site which has additional more detailed information.  In the case of the CBIIT installation of NBIA it will direct users to a wiki which contains detailed more information on all collections in this grid node.  The administrator is able to modify the description of the collection with a rich text editor implemented in NBIA.
 

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A redesigned Remote/Federated search interface has been implemented to automatically discover the remote NBIA nodes automatically.  If multiple nodes of NBIA are discovered on caGRID it will display them so you can select which nodes to search.  It also provides the searchable terms available in each node. Federated search is not available through Dynamic Search in this release.

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