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
- Providing information to proper orientation and hanging of images
- 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
- Increase Throughput
- Reduces time to read the images. Images will be displayed on the screen oriented so that the important area is automatically displayed and with the correct orientation and sizing.
- Reduce costs by largely eliminating film printing, management and storage costs.
Details
The IHE Mammography Image Profile describes requirements, so that the mammography diagnostic review workstation is capable to display the digital mammography images in a similar way to that of the analog mammography environment. The user can decide on the layout of the different acquired views, i.e. CC and MLO views. Current and prior sets of digital mammography images can be displayed on the review workstation simultaneously. In addition, CAD marks are be displayed together with the corresponding digital images.
Systems Affected
- Modalities that create, store, and transmit Mammography images.
- PACS systems that store, manage, and/or display Mammography images.
- Display systems that query, retrieve and display Mammography images.
- Workstations that retrieve, process and display Mammography images, and may create evidence documents.
- Printers that print Mammography images in true size
Actors & Transactions:
Specification
Profile Status: Final Text
Documents:
Underlying Standards:
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
- Storage, Transmission, and Retrieval of Digital Mammography, Including Recommendations on Image Compression; David Avrin, Richard Morin,David Piraino, Alan Rowberg, Nicholas Detorie, Margarita Zuley,J. Anthony Seibert, Etta D. Pisano; Journal of the American College of Radiology, Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2006, Pages 609–614
- How to Transition to Digital Mammography; Margarita Zuley; Journal of the American College of Radiology, Volume 4, Issue 3, March 2007, Pages 178–183
- IHE: What Is It and What Does It Have To Do with Mammography?; Margarita Zuley; Seminars in Breast Disease: Radiologic, Pathologic and Surgical Considerations(2006) Volume 9 Issue 2 (Digital Mammography, Part I: Operational Considerations), Pages 82-84
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