Web-based image review and data acquisition for multiinstitutional research.
OBJECTIVE
In this article, we describe a user-friendly Web-based interface that allows review of images combined with integrated data collection and entry for use at multiple sites involved in a large multicenter research project.


CONCLUSIONS
The Web-based system that we present uses a commercially available Internet browser and Web platform and allows automated data entry that can be easily uploaded into standard data analysis programs. The system simplifies the complex logistics of using multiple sites and reviewers for radiology research and can preserve human subject confidentiality. We tested the system using a large-scale multicenter cohort study of pelvic fracture-related hemorrhage (the "Evaluating Pelvic Hemorrhage" study). Program testing revealed seamless remote image interpretation and data acquisition.
Blackmore
C Craig
CC
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
Richardson
Michael L
ML
Linnau
Ken F
KF
Schwed
Amber M
AM
Lomoschitz
Friedrich M
FM
Escobedo
Eva M
EM
Hunter
John C
JC
Jurkovich
Gregory J
GJ
Cummings
Peter
P
D035843:Biomedical Research; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D011873:Radiology Information Systems