Clinical cases presentation software

Casebook by Mirada Medical sets a new standard for clinical presentations. It allows presenting of DICOM images, enabling the presenter to navigate, zoom and window/level full volumetric DICOM images in real time during a PowerPoint presentation.

Until 2003, to include DICOM images in a presentation, a clinician was restricted to capturing screen shots from their review software, and embedding these images into PowerPoint slides. There are clear limitations to this approach, namely that associated data is not available should questions relating to the case in question arise, and the brightness/contrast of the projector may render the images invisible.

In 2003, Dr Haider released software to address some of these issues [1], however it also had limitations: viewing the images was limited to a stack of 2D images, and that window/level adjustments were only applied to the active image.

Mirada's Casebook addresses these issues, but also takes DICOM presentation within PowerPoint to another level. As well as offering full three-axis navigation and globally applied window/level adjustments, a key new feature introduced by Casebook is the concept of bookmarks. While preparing the presentation, a clinician can record features of interest as bookmarks, these can be recalled quickly during a presentation. The bookmarks not only store the feature location, but other display settings as colour map and window level choice.

Mirada Medical is well known for its technology such as image fusion. Casebook is no exception, with it you are able to show a fusion overlay. As with the other features, the transparency, window/level and colour map of the fusion overlay can be adjusted in real-time and stored within the bookmarks.

Casebook is freely downloadable at www.mirada-casebook.com .

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[1] M.A. Haider, Extending PowerPoint with DICOM Image Support, Radiographics, 2003;23:1683-1687