An extendable web-based tool for online radiological assessment of imaging protocols

Motivation: Available online reading tools were not readily extendable for our comparative and inter-rater radiological assessment of an ultra-fast MRI protocol for dementia diagnosis. Goal(s): We sought to develop a review tool to enable scalable, geographically-distributed review of imaging protocols for diagnostic use. Approach: We designed a web-based review tool and evaluated it for our needs, whilst ensuring flexibility for use across MRI studies. Results: We developed the Extendable Review Tool using popular technologies to ease configuration for future studies. We tested the tool using a dementia-specific questionnaire to compare ultra-fast and standard of care MRI scans across a range of contrasts. Impact: Our Extendable Review Tool is customisable for any MRI-based study where geographically-distributed clinical reading of a set of images is needed. As an extendable and flexible web-based tool it has potential to aid a broad range of studies.