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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

A Data Ingestion Procedure towards a Medical Images Repository.

Mauricio Solar, Victor Castañeda, Ricardo Ñanculef, Lioubov Dombrovskaia, Mauricio Araya

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Content-Based Histopathological Image Retrieval.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Mauricio SolarDepartamento de Informática, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Campus Vitacura-Santiago, Vitacura 7660251, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-4433-4622
Victor CastañedaDETEM, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Independencia-Santiago, Santiago 8380453, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-0554-0324
Ricardo ÑanculefDepartamento de Informática, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Campus San Joaquin-Santiago, Santiago 8940897, Chile.
Lioubov DombrovskaiaDepartamento de Informática, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Campus San Joaquin-Santiago, Santiago 8940897, Chile.
Mauricio ArayaDepartamento de Informática, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Campus Casa Central-Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-3472-4130

Funding

Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo IT21I0019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents an ingestion procedure towards an interoperable repository called ALPACS (Anonymized Local Picture Archiving and Communication System). ALPACS provides services to clinical and hospital users, who can access the repository data through an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application called PROXIMITY. This article shows the automated procedure for data ingestion from the medical imaging provider to the ALPACS repository. The data ingestion procedure was successfully applied by the data provider (Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile, HCUCH) using a pseudo-anonymization algorithm at the source, thereby ensuring that the privacy of patients' sensitive data is respected. Data transfer was carried out using international communication standards for health systems, which allows for replication of the procedure by other institutions that provide medical images.

objectivesThis article aims to create a repository of 33,000 medical CT images and 33,000 diagnostic reports with international standards (HL7 HAPI FHIR, DICOM, SNOMED). This goal requires devising a data ingestion procedure that can be replicated by other provider institutions, guaranteeing data privacy by implementing a pseudo-anonymization algorithm at the source, and generating labels from annotations via NLP. METHODOLOGY: Our approach involves hybrid on-premise/cloud deployment of PACS and FHIR services, including transfer services for anonymized data to populate the repository through a structured ingestion procedure. We used NLP over the diagnostic reports to generate annotations, which were then used to train ML algorithms for content-based similar exam recovery. OUTCOMES: We successfully implemented ALPACS and PROXIMITY 2.0, ingesting almost 19,000 thorax CT exams to date along with their corresponding reports.

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AlgorithmsRadiology Information SystemsArtificial IntelligenceDatabases, FactualDiagnostic ImagingHumansTomography, X-Ray Computedanonymizerdata ingestionDICOMHL7 FHIRinteroperabilityinteroperable platform

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PMID39124032
PMCPMC11314906

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