Feature suggestion: institution ignore list

[rpra...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I wonder if it would be possible to build an addition to the "Display names & modality" page that allows you to simply tick a system and add it to an exclude list for import/analysis. Our PACS likes to get a lot of imported exams and software updates that means we have nearly 700 systems listed in that page which reduce down to about 30 systems of interest once the grouping is done. 

I have considered adding an "institution names to ignore" section within the Orthanc Store configuration lua but have never managed to get to it. Adding station names individually is impractical to do and it's not a straight forward task to involve colleagues with. A web interface to exclude institution names or specific station names would be much simpler to do and get others involved in maintaining. 

[dpla...@gmail.com]

I have added this as an issue: https://bitbucket.org/openrem/openrem/issues/895/

Kind regards,

David

[Ed McDonagh]

Thank you David.

"rpraynor", we have this issue too. Currently we deal with it by periodically going through the Display Name configuration (https://docs.openrem.org/en/0.10.0-docs/i_displaynames.html) and renaming all the imported modalities to the name "Imported". I could also use the "review" link on each one to delete the studies, but I don't tend to bother.

I'm interested in an alternative approach that would make this process easier/more accessible. Do you think maintaining a list of institution names or station names would fit this brief?

If you can flesh out what the process might be, that would help someone to do the development work - it won't be for the current version in development, but could be for a future one!

Thanks for the suggestion.

Ed

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[rpra...@gmail.com]

Hi Ed,

I have been going through a similar process of periodically giving them a matching Display Name. The downside is that this needs someone to do it regularly and it still populates our database with information I have no interest in and needs to be excluded when doing any data processing. The ideal situation would be a method to identify systems at the Q/R stage and simply not import them. It would be a bit more efficient and prevent messy data. I know that the Orthanc Store configuration can be configured to do this but it's a more involved process and is not something I would ask colleagues unfamiliar with the OpenREM configuration to do, nor something I would want to do regularly myself. By comparison, adjusting Display Names is quite quick and intuitive. 

The process that I've pictured would be similar to the Display Name configuration but instead of updating a Display Name you would select a system and then flag the field to be added to an exclusion list. That could be an Institution name, Station Name, Model Name or Serial number. A nice addition would be a prompt to delete existing records for the system you are adding to the list. Any future queries would skip importing anything on the exclusion list. The less ideal solution would be a configuration to automatically delete records from the specified (field) after it had been imported.

The reason I single out Institution Name is that it is one of the only fields where there is some repetition that could safely be excluded where a match is found. Looking at our system I have apparently accumulated over 700 unique records as Imported within the Display Names configuration window but that represents ~350 unique Institution Names. In practice it would simply reduce the amount of systems I need to flag as Imported by noting the matching Institution Name. 

Sorry for not replying sooner!

Kind Regards,

Richard Raynor