Dear NBIA Users,
We are 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 end user functionality and back end administration tools. Below is a list of the new features:
Create and share custom lists of images
NBIA now has the capability to create a "Shared List", which allows a logged-in user to create 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 liste 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.
Capability to search a Shared List, which allows any user (public or logged-in users) to search a shared list and add the list content into the data basket for download.
Improved Quality Control and Reporting
The QC Tool has been a completely redesigned to improve performance and usability. It now includes the ability to quickly scan image series via the Cine 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 the system of image submission errors. This functionality is role based and allows for initial deletion by QC analysts, but allows for an archive administrator to make final approvals to ensure data is never deleted by accident.
In addition to these quality control and image management features the 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 has two seperate views. The first is an Image based view which allows you to drill 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 submission statistics.
Better integration with collection metadata
The NBIA search interface now includes tooltips which can be clicked to view a short description of the contents of each image Collection. Within each tooltip 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 administrator is able to modify the description of the collection with a rich text editor implemented in NBIA.
Redesigned Federated Search
A redesigned Remote/Federated search interface has been implemented to 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.
Fixes to Dynamic Search
Some minor fixes were applied to the Dynamic Search functionality. Dynamic Search allows users to search all fields of the NBIA data model. This includes the ability to query over XX different DICOM tags.
For more information:
Detailed release notes can be found here.
For groups interested in installing NBIA 4.4 locally, the full installation package as well as an upgrade installer and associated documentation are available at our distribution site: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/?group_id=312.
As always, support is available via email, ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov, or by telephone, (301)451-4384, toll free (888)478-4423
