Purpose: EURORAD is a database of the European Association of Radiology accessible on the World Wide Web (http:// www.eurorad.org/). It is devoted to diagnostic imaging and can be used for routine practice, training and research mostly but not exclusively by radiologists. Methods and Materials: The project is partly funded by the European Commission and coordinated on behalf of EAR by CITEC S.p.A. The main aim of the project is to build a database accessible on Internet. containing thousands of cases covering all radiological subspecialties. The peer-review process is organized as to guarantee quality assurance standards established in scientific journals. Results: EURORAD is based on a collection of multimedia case records. Each anonymous case record contains at least one radiological document, still image or movie, and a text file for case comment with key words and codes (ACR and MeSH). The providers are individual radiologists, European academic radiologic centers, excellence centers selected by subspeciality societies, or invited institutions directly contacted by the EURORAD partners. Submission is done on Internet. The authors are requested to submit images under JPEG format and DICOM format when available. The reviewing process follows a three levels system with one Editor-in Chief (Pr A Baert), 14 section editors covering the different subspecialties and approximately 10 reviewers by subspecialty. Each case is submitted to an anonymous peer-review. All exchanges between authors and section editors and between the three categories of reviewers are done on Internet. Conclusion: EURORAD will be a demonstration of the ability of European radiologists to use advanced multimedia tools and advanced information technologies for dissemination of high quality scientific content.
EURORAD, the EAR database project
CARAMELLA, DAVIDE;
1999-01-01
Abstract
Purpose: EURORAD is a database of the European Association of Radiology accessible on the World Wide Web (http:// www.eurorad.org/). It is devoted to diagnostic imaging and can be used for routine practice, training and research mostly but not exclusively by radiologists. Methods and Materials: The project is partly funded by the European Commission and coordinated on behalf of EAR by CITEC S.p.A. The main aim of the project is to build a database accessible on Internet. containing thousands of cases covering all radiological subspecialties. The peer-review process is organized as to guarantee quality assurance standards established in scientific journals. Results: EURORAD is based on a collection of multimedia case records. Each anonymous case record contains at least one radiological document, still image or movie, and a text file for case comment with key words and codes (ACR and MeSH). The providers are individual radiologists, European academic radiologic centers, excellence centers selected by subspeciality societies, or invited institutions directly contacted by the EURORAD partners. Submission is done on Internet. The authors are requested to submit images under JPEG format and DICOM format when available. The reviewing process follows a three levels system with one Editor-in Chief (Pr A Baert), 14 section editors covering the different subspecialties and approximately 10 reviewers by subspecialty. Each case is submitted to an anonymous peer-review. All exchanges between authors and section editors and between the three categories of reviewers are done on Internet. Conclusion: EURORAD will be a demonstration of the ability of European radiologists to use advanced multimedia tools and advanced information technologies for dissemination of high quality scientific content.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
