Improved efficiency in clinical workflow of reporting measured oncology lesions via PACS-integrated lesion tracking tool.

OBJECTIVE. Imaging provides evidence for the response to oncology treatment by the serial measurement of reference lesions. Unfortunately, the identification, comparison, measurement, and documentation of several reference lesions can be an inefficient process.

Evaluation of Kinetic Entropy of Breast Masses Initially Found on MRI using Whole-lesion Curve Distribution Data: Comparison with the Standard Kinetic Analysis.

Objectives: To quantify kinetic heterogeneity of breast masses that were initially detected with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI, using whole-lesion kinetic distribution data obtained from computer-aided evaluation (CAE), and to compare that with standard kinetic curve analysis.

Methods: Clinical MR images from 2006 to 2011 with breast masses initially detected with MRI were evaluated with CAE. The relative frequencies of six kinetic patterns (medium-persistent, medium-plateau, medium-washout, rapid-persistent, rapid-plateau, rapid-washout) within the entire lesion were used to calculate kinetic entropy (KE), a quantitative measure of enhancement pattern heterogeneity.

Preferences for structured reporting of measurement data: an institutional survey of medical oncologists, oncology registrars, and radiologists.

Rationale And Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether key radiology report "consumers" in our institution prefer structured measurement reporting in a dedicated report section over the current practice of embedding measurements throughout the "Findings" section, given the availability of new tools for quantitative imaging interpretation that enable automated structured reporting of measurement data.

Materials And Methods: Oncologic clinicians and radiologists at our institution were surveyed regarding their preferences for a standard report versus three reports each having uniquely formatted dedicated "Measurements" sections and regarding their impressions of various characteristics of report quality demonstrated by these reports. The online survey was completed by 25 radiologists, 16 oncologists, and 17 oncology nurses and research assistants (registrars).