Decision Support Systems for MAG3 Renography

描述（由申请人提供）：快速扩展的知识库和不断升级的时间限制所施加的压力使诊断放射科医生陷入困境;对于低容量研究（如Tc-99 m MAG 3肾造影），这种困境变得尤为严重，其中许多放射科医生的培训和经验有限。我们建议完成一个全面的决策支持系统的开发，该系统将自动处理MAG 3肾扫描，识别和纠正质量控制问题，并结合临床数据来解释MAG 3肾扫描的正常性，功能，阻塞和肾血管性高血压以及专家核医学医生。我们希望，这个决策支持系统将更好地定义基本的解释标准，促进标准化的解释，教放射科医生和学员更好地解释肾扫描，提高诊断的准确性，在临床实践中的一般放射科医生，并提供一种方法，适用于其他诊断问题的放射学和医学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The pressures imposed by a rapidly expanding knowledge base and escalating time constraints create a dilemma for diagnostic radiologists; the dilemma becomes particularly acute for low volume studies such as Tc-99m MAG3 renography where many radiologists have had limited training and experience. We propose to complete the development of a comprehensive decision support system that will automatically process MAG3 renal scans, identify and correct quality control problems, and incorporate clinical data to interpret MAG3 renal scans in regard to normality, function, obstruction and renovascular hypertension as well as expert nuclear medicine physicians. We expect that this decision support system will better define the essential interpretative criteria, foster standardized interpretation, teach radiologists and trainees to better interpret renal scans, enhance the diagnostic accuracy of the general radiologist in clinical practice and provide a methodology applicable to other diagnostic problems in radiology and medicine.