Jochen G. Hirsch1, Alexander Köhn1, Daniel C. Hoinkiss1, Jonas Peter1, Andreas Thomsen1, Matthias Günther1,2, and the German National Cohort MRI Study Investigators3
1Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany, 2University Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3NAKO MR Imaging Core, Munich, Germany
We
present a fully automated data management workflow and quality
assurance, which is set up for large, multicentric cohort studies
including whole-body MR imaging. The workflow includes a modality
worklist, exam-synchronous DICOM transfer to centralized storage,
quality control of MR acquisition, various image-based quality
measures, web-based radiological image review for incidental
findings, visual quality scores, as well as long-term archiving. This
workflow, implemented in the MRI
Study of the German National Cohort, enables to acquire and process
more than 30 whole-body MRI
scans per day, available for IF reading within 4 hours. Deviations,
outliers, technical failures are pointed out on-the-fly.
