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DIGISTAT
Image Bank
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DIGISTAT
Version 4.3
®
User Manual
DIG UD IMB IU 0005 ENG V01
30 June 2017
ASCOM UMS srl unipersonale
Via Amilcare Ponchielli 29, 50018, Scandicci (FI), Italy
Tel. (+39) 055 0512161 – Fax (+39) 055 829030
www.ascom.com

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  • Page 1 Image Bank ® DIGISTAT Version 4.3 ® User Manual DIG UD IMB IU 0005 ENG V01 30 June 2017 ASCOM UMS srl unipersonale Via Amilcare Ponchielli 29, 50018, Scandicci (FI), Italy Tel. (+39) 055 0512161 – Fax (+39) 055 829030 www.ascom.com...
  • Page 2 Copyright © ASCOM UMS srl. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced, transmitted, copied, recorded or translated, in any form, by any means, on any media, without the prior written consent of ASCOM UMS. SOFTWARE LICENSE Your Licence Agreement –...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Contents ..........................3 1. Image Bank ........................4 1.1. Module selection....................4 1.2. Patient search and selection .................. 5 1.3. Main screen description ..................5 1.4. “Examination details” screen ................6 1.4.1. Images and videos thumbnails ..............7 1.4.2. Display area .................... 10 1.4.3.

  • Page 4: Image Bank

    1. Image Bank ® For general and detailed information about the DIGISTAT environment and the instruction for use of the Control Bar software see the document “DIG UD CBR IU 0005 ENG V01 - Digistat Control Bar User Manual”. “Image Bank” module is a powerful and flexible solution for image and video ®...

  • Page 5: Patient Search And Selection

    1.2. Patient search and selection ® To select a patient, if you are using for this purpose a DIGISTAT software,  click the Patient button on the Control Bar (Fig 2 A) ® The DIGISTAT Patient Explorer module, if installed, will open; otherwise the patient search and selection functions are accomplished by Control Bar.

  • Page 6: Examination Details" Screen

    In the example shown in Fig 2 the patient name is Angelo Rossi (Fig 2 A); his examinations are represented by the boxes indicated in Fig 2 B. Each box refers to an examination. The examination date and type are displayed within the box. Each box is a button. Click the button to access a screen containing all the information (text, images and videos) of the specified examination.

  • Page 7: Images And Videos Thumbnails

    1.4.1. Images and videos thumbnails On the left a small preview (thumbnail) of each image and video is displayed (Fig 4). For the videos the first frame is displayed as preview. Fig 4 - Preview, thumbnails To display the full picture or video ...
  • Page 8 Fig 5 - Image selection Thumbnails referring to images are characterized by the symbol (Fig 6) Fig 6 - Image Thumbnails referring to videos are characterized by the symbol (Fig 7). DIG UD IMB IU 0005 ENG V01 Page 8 of 49...
  • Page 9 Fig 7 - Video After the selection of a thumbnail referring to a video the corresponding video is immediately played on the display area. DIG UD IMB IU 0005 ENG V01 Page 9 of 49...

  • Page 10: Display Area

    1.4.2. Display area The central part of the screen displays in full size the selected images and videos (Fig 3 B, Fig 8). Fig 8 - Display area Six buttons on the bottom-left corner make it possible to operate on the images and change their display mode (Fig 8 A).

  • Page 11: Functions Of The Buttons

    1.4.3. Functions of the buttons WARNING! The procedures described in this paragraph can be performed with the fingers only when using a “touch-screen”. It is otherwise necessary to use the mouse device, moving the mouse pointer while keeping the left button clicked. 1.4.3.1.
  • Page 12 1.4.3.5. Contrast - the button To adjust the contrast of an image  select the button. The button is this way highlighted.  Touch the image and move the finger horizontally on the touch-screen. Contrast is increased when movement goes left to right. Contrast is reduced when movement goes right to left.

  • Page 13: Videos

    1.4.4. Videos Four further buttons, making it possible to operate on the video reproduction, are present when playing a video (Fig 9 A). Their presence depends on the video format. Fig 9 - Coronarography button (Play) plays the video. button (Pause) pauses the video. button (Stop) stops the video.

  • Page 14: The Command Bar

     zoom;  dither;  anti alias;  smooth;  image info. 1.4.5. The command bar The command bar (Fig 11) contains the function-buttons making it possible to perform different actions. The different functions are briefly described in this paragraph. The detailed procedures will be described later in the paragraphs indicated here.

  • Page 15: Creating A New Examination

    The Multi button (Fig 13 A) is enabled, making it possible multiple selection of videos and images for quick deletion (see paragraph 1.10.1 for the procedure). 1.5. Creating a new examination To create a new examination  select the patient. See paragraph 1.2 for the patient selection procedure. The Image Bank main screen opens.

  • Page 16: How To Grab Images And Videos

    If this is the case see paragraph 1.6.3 and the specific hardware documentation. ® When a remote acquisition device is in use the DIGISTAT Image Bank module can be activated in background as well. That is: module selection is not necessary to images acquisition.
  • Page 17  Select the examination under which you want to record the new videos/images; otherwise create a new visit, if this is the case (the examination selection procedure is described in paragraph 1.3, the new examination creation procedure is described in paragraph 1.5). ...

  • Page 18: Acquisition Screen Command Bar

    Fig 18 - Video acquisition Video acquisition goes on until the “stop” button is clicked.  Click the button to stop the video acquisition (Fig 18 A). The video will be saved an will become visibile on the “Examination details” screen referring to the selected patient and visit (Fig 3 shows an example).
  • Page 19 Fig 20 - Device selection screen In the example shown in the figure only one device is available.  Click the name of the wanted device. The name is this way highlighted.  Click the Ok button on the command bar (Fig 20 B). The system will go back to the “acquisition screen”...

  • Page 20: Alternative Grabbing Procedure

    Fig 21 - Acquisition devices configuration 1.6.2. Alternative grabbing procedure A configuration parameter makes it possible to set a different images and videos acquisition procedure. Refer to your system administrator for the configuration alternatives. When this procedure is activated the click on the Grab button on the command bar does not bring to the page shown in Fig 17.

  • Page 21: Remote Acquisition Devices

    “Image bank” ® Remote acquisition devices can be used to facilitate and speed-up the DIGISTAT procedures. The presence of these devices depends on the clinical procedures in use. This paragraph briefly describes two of the devices most commonly used. Refer to the hardware’s specific documentation for a detailed description of the devices.

  • Page 22: Adding An Image/Video

    1.6.3.1. Footswitch This device is a pedal board containing two footswitches. This device can be used independently from the page currently displayed on screen. If you are on the “Visit” page (Fig 3 shows an example) and the footswitch is pressed, the “Grab” page is automatically displayed (either Fig 18 or Fig 22, depending on the configuration chosen), otherwise the acquisition is performed in background.
  • Page 23 Fig 24  Use the field indicated in Fig 24 to specify the file extension.  Click the name of the wanted file. The name is this way highlighted (Fig 25 A). Fig 25  Click the Open button (Fig 25 B). The selected image/video is this way added to those already existing for the specific examination.

  • Page 24: Examination Report

    1.8. Examination report To create or edit the current examination report  click the Report button on the command bar (Fig 26). Fig 26 - Command bar The following screen opens (Fig 27). Fig 27 - Report (empty screen) The screen shown in Fig 27 is empty, i.e. no information is specified on the report. When information already exists, this screen makes it possible to read it and edit it.

  • Page 25: Adding A Pre-Defined Code To The Examination Report

    - Paste - Font selection - Font size selection - Bold - Italic - Underlined - Left alignment - Centred text - Right alignment - List buttons After any editing; to save the changes,  click the Save button on the command bar (Fig 27 B). The text is this way saved. Three other buttons are on the “Report”...
  • Page 26 Codefinder module is used for this purpose. See the specific documentation for a detailed description of this module. “Diagnosis” area Fig 30 - Diagnostic codes To add a diagnosis,  click the Add button indicated in Fig 30 A. The DIGISTAT ® Codefinder module opens (Fig 31). Fig 31 ...

  • Page 27: Image Bank Print Functions

    The diagnostic code is this way added to the “Diagnosis” area. To remove a “Diagnosis”  Click the diagnosis to be removed. The diagnosis is highlighted (Fig 32). Fig 32  Click the Remove button indicated in Fig 30 B. The selected diagnosis is this way removed. 1.9.
  • Page 28 Fig 35 - Examination detail screen  click the Print button on the command bar (Fig 35 A). The following screen opens. Print report selection Thumbnails Print buttons Fig 36 - Print report selection DIG UD IMB IU 0005 ENG V01 Page 28 of 49...
  • Page 29 It is possible to select the type of print report to create. The visit’s thumbnails are still displayed on the left (Fig 36 A). Several icons, each one corresponding to a specific kind of document, are displayed on the right (Fig 36 B).

  • Page 30: How To Create A Print Report (Quick Guide)

    1.9.1. How to create a print report (quick guide) To create a print report  select the relevant examination (use the buttons on the examinations list for this purpose - Fig 34). The “Examination detail” screen opens (Fig 35).  click the Print button (Fig 35 A). The screen shown in Fig 36 opens. ...

  • Page 31: Simultaneous Deletion Of Several Items

    Fig 40  Click Yes to delete the selected image/video. 1.10.1. Simultaneous deletion of several items It is possible to select several images/videos together to delete them all at once. To do that it is first necessary to deselect any image/video previously selected. To deselect an image/video click on its thumbnail on the left part of the screen.

  • Page 32: Image/Video Annotation

    1.11. Image/video annotation To associate a note to an image/video, on the “Examination detail” screen (Fig 44), Fig 44 - Visit  click the thumbnail corresponding to the relevant image/video. The image/video is this way selected.  Click the Annot. button on the command bar (Fig 44 A). The following window opens. Fig 45 - Image annotation ...
  • Page 33  Click the Ok button (Fig 46 A). The annotation is displayed under the thumbnail corresponding to the selected image (Fig 47). Fig 47 button on the “Image annotation” window (Fig 46 B) to open the DIGISTAT ® Use the Codefinder module, making it possible to find and insert coded diagnosis in the appropriate fields.

  • Page 34: Compare Images

    1.12. Compare images The Image Bank module makes it possible to display two images on the same screen, one next to the other, for comparison. To do that, on the “Examination detail” screen (Fig 48), Fig 48 - Visit  click the image you want to compare. The image is selected. ...
  • Page 35 Fig 49 - Different visit  Click the image to be compared. The image is selected.  Click the Compare button on the command bar (Fig 49 A). The following screen opens: the image stored for first is displayed on the right; the image selected later to be compared is displayed on the left.
  • Page 36 Fig 50 - Images comparison The system keeps in memory all the images of a selected visit; use the Prev and Next buttons on the command bar to display, on the left half of the screen, all the other images. ...

  • Page 37: Video "Editing" Options

    1.13. Video “editing” options The user can operate in several ways on the videos. The user can, for example, cut portions of a video and save them as a separate film, or exctract frames from a video and save them as autonomous images.
  • Page 38 Fig 52 - “Trim” options The screen displays, on the large image on the left, the frame currently selected (Fig 52 A). A time bar indicating the video flow is below the image (Fig 52 B). Fig 53 - Current frame A cursor is on the bar.
  • Page 39 Fig 54 - Current frame (2) In the example shown in Fig 54 A the displayed frame is placed just before the middle of the video. The cursor can be moved in two ways: 1) dragging: place the mouse pointer on the cursor and, keeping the left button clicked, drag the cursor either to the right or the left;...
  • Page 40 Fig 55 The following information is displayed within the box. Trim info:  current frame - currently displayed frame number;  current time - currently displayed frame time;  start frame - (possible) selected video portion start frame number (see paragraph 1.13.1 for the video selection functions);...

  • Page 41: Selecting And Saving A Video Portion

    1.13.1. Selecting and saving a video portion The area indicated in Fig 52 E and enlarged in Fig 56 makes it possible to select a video portion. The selected portion can be saved as another autonomous video. Fig 56 - Set start and stop frame To do that it is necessary to set the first and last frame of the portion to be selected.
  • Page 42 The frame displayed in Fig 57 will be set as start frame. The selected frame is displayed (small) within the area shown in Fig 58 A. The selected frame number is displayed above the area (Fig 58 Fig 58 - Start frame It is now necessary to set the stop frame.
  • Page 43 Fig 60 The video portion selected this way appears highlighted blu on the “time bar” on the left (Fig 61 A). Fig 61 - Selected video portion The area indicated in Fig 61 B contains information on the selected video portion (number of frames, duration, start frame time, stop frame time etc…).
  • Page 44 1.13.1.1. Film preview The Preview button indicated in Fig 61 D makes it possible to display a preview of the selected video. When the button is clicked the screen changes in the way shown in Fig 62: Fig 62 - Preview The preview of the selected video portion is displayed on the right (Fig 62).

  • Page 45: How To "Trim" A Video Portion (Concise Procedure)

    WARNING! This operation can be performed with the fingers only when using a “touch-screen”. It is otherwise necessary to use the mouse device, moving the mouse pointer horizontally while keeping the left button clicked. To close the video preview  click the Preview button again. The screen returns this way to look as in Fig 61. 1.13.1.2.

  • Page 46: How To Grab A Picture From A Film (Concise Procedure)

    “Trim” screen. The frame currently displayed is this way saved as image. 1.14. Coordinated use of Image Bank and Clinical Forms ® To display the examination information that is not immediately available on DIGISTAT Image ® Bank select the DIGISTAT Clinical Forms module.
  • Page 47 See the DIGISTAT Clinical Forms module documentation for information aboute the module’s goals and functionalities. ® The functionalities described in this paragraph are active only if the DIGISTAT ® Clinical Forms module is active on the DIGISTAT configuration in use.

  • Page 48: Contacts

    2. Contacts  ASCOM UMS srl unipersonale Via Amilcare Ponchielli 29, 50018, Scandicci (FI), Italy Tel. (+39) 055 0512161 Fax (+39) 055 8290392  Technical assistance support.it@ascom.com 800999715 (toll free, Italy only)  Sales and products information it.sales@ascom.com  General info it.info@ascom.com...
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