WorkstationOne - 2024 Pricing, Features, Reviews, & Alternatives

WorkstationOne is a medical device that implements the software for a vendor-neutral diagnostic breast imaging workstation. It obtains breast imaging screening or diagnosis exams from PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) or Modalities; then displays and manipulates the images for radiologists to perform the interpretation task. The workstation can also interface with a reporting system to generate an interpretation report. The workstation also supports media exchange and film printing.

The workstation can be configured to use mammographic specific hanging protocols and reading workflow. The workstation obtains the source images, CAD SR (Structured Reports) reports and GSPS (Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State) annotations, either as the recipient of the push of that data, or by querying and retrieving them from a PACS archive. In both models, DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard is used. The images can only be lossless compressed or non-compressed DICOM images.

The workstation supports the display of:

o MG (digital mammography, including breast tomosynthesis and breast projection) images

o CAD SR (structured reports) as an overlay detection mark on the image, plus integration of additional information such as computer assessment of the breast density categories

o digitized prior mammogram film images

o breast US (ultrasound) images

o breast MR (magnetic resonance) images

o breast NM (nuclear medicine) images

o breast CT (computed tomography) images

o CR or DX general radiography images

o associated documents (secondary capture or web documents), such as, referring doctor’s letter, notes and previous reports

o SR (structured reports) in addition to CAD that are displayed as text

o Key Image Notes (KOS) that indicate images or frames of interest

o GSPS graphic annotations

o encapsulated PDF documents

The workstation provides the following functions to perform operations for, or by, users:

o image layout

o image manipulation

o image quantification

o annotations

o markup and assessment

The image layout functionality includes a number of mammographic-specific hanging protocols. The features for image manipulation include: image contrast, zoom, pan, invert, flip and mask. Image quantification mechanisms include caliper and measurements that are performed over a markup ROI or line that the user draws. Some of these functions may be performed automatically or manually by the user.

Automation of the mammography specific viewing protocol includes:

o automated image orientation and chest wall alignment for the mammography hanging protocol.

o automated size calculation so multiple images can be displayed at the same relative physical size.

o navigating the per-user configured mammography screening hanging protocol sequence.

o handling of ad hoc excursions to the mammographic viewing protocol.