Mammography Image

The Mammography Image (MAMMO) Profile specifies how Mammography images and evidence objects are created, exchanged, used and displayed.

Summary

The IHE Mammography Image Profile ensures that the acquired digital mammography images contain all relevant information that is necessary for further image processing, application of CAD, storage, display, review and printing. This profile is absolutely necessary for generating correct digital mammography image content to ensure optimal presentation of images at a mammography review workstation.

Benefits

Support for the MAMMO profile will provide the following benefits to your healthcare enterprise:

• Reduce Errors and Enhance Patient Care
  • Ensuring proper, consistent creation of patient and technical information
  • Ensures that the acquired images contain the necessary data for identifying patient and technology, and that further image processing and review is correct and meaningful, mainly by:
    • Scaling of the image so that images from the same patient, acquired on different detectors can be displayed at the same size or printed in true size
    • Storing contrast information at the modality so that contrast adjustments do not degrade the quality of displayed images
    • Clear definition of breast tissue and background air so that if contrast adjustments are made during interpretation of the images, the background blackness will be maintained for optimal viewing of the structure of the breast.
• Improve Image Quality
  • Improves image display and printing by including relevant data in images
  • Ensures that all technique acquisition parameters are available for review
  • Ensures that the images can be oriented, justified and sized correctly for proper and expeditious interpretation
  • Ensures that presentation images can be used in a consistent manner on different mammography review workstations

Systems Affected

• Modalities may create, store, and transmit Mammography images.
• PACS systems may store, manage, and/or display Mammography images.
• Display systems may query, retrieve and display Mammography images.
• Workstations may retrieve, process and display Mammography images, and may create evidence documents.

Actors & Transactions:

Specification

Profile Status: Final Text

Documents:

• [1] Underlying Standards:

• DICOM

See Also

Related Profiles

• Scheduled Workflow [SWF] can manage the production of Digital Mammography Images.

• Mammography Acquisition Workflow [MAWF] is handling exceptions occurring during the acquisition workflow like changing the acquisition room, handling of recall scenarios or converting procedures

• Patient Information Reconciliation [PIR] is expected to reconcile Mammography Images along with the rest of the patient data record.

• Reporting Workflow [RWF] may use Mammography Images as inputs to the reporting process.

• Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging [XDS-I] can be used to share Mammography Images between sites over a network.

• Portable Data for Imaging [PDI] can store Mammography Images on media such as CDs.

• Import Reconciliation Workflow [IRWF] can fix patient ids, etc. of Mammography Images when importing.

Consumer Information

The IHE Radiology Mammography Users Handbook describes considerations when purchasing equipment to deploy this Profile.

Implementer Information

Reference Articles

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