ASTRO and EduCase join forces to improve Radiation Oncology education

EduCase™ is a portal creating a global IMRT case archive and contouring training tool system. All IMRT cases published to ASTRO's EduCase portal are for the ASTRO community members to interact with and practice their contouring techniques.

EduCase™ provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of IMRT cases including CT, PET, MR, US and 4D respiratory. EduCase™ is used by organizations of all sizes for posting of IMRT cases, Private Intranets, and Extranets and is supported by a community of thousands of users.

EduCase™ website and desktop application allows for the customization on every aspect of a Case archiving, Clinical Trail management and Medical Residency Training capabilities for the Radiation Oncology community.

EduCase™ has a rich heritage in education and has been crowned the online contouring king many times over. Now with more power under the hood, EduCase™ is shifting gears and provides the Radiation Oncology community the power to train students while making the user experience all the more friendly. For those who always wanted increased extensibility of their Rad Onc training, EduCase™ can make this happen.

The ASTRO EduCase™ website allows for customized Case archiving, contouring for Clinical Trail management, and Medical Residency Training for the Radiation Oncology community.

Now with more power under the hood, EduCase™ provides the Radiation Oncology community power to:

1. View DICOM CT, MRI, PET,US, and 4D Respiratory studies and case contours online
2. Draw and practice contours based on case contours provided online
3. Save contours and load saved contours online
4. Export contour data for statistical analysis
5. View Annotations made by case owners including media assets, didactic contour tagging and user commenting online and offline
6. Orthogonal views (Axial, Sagittal and Coronal views) online
7. Similarity Metric measuring and scoring user’s contouring accuracy with our Area Domain, Line Domain , and Point Domain metric tools online
8. Save case results to online server in user profile for:
1. Saved contours
2. Annotation comments
3. Similarity Metric results with our Area Domain, Line Domain , and Point Domain metric tools
4. View DICOM RT objects with Isodose rendering
5. View cumulative and differential DVH charting values
6. View DRR and Daily Radiography images

Using Adobe Flex framework, Amazon WebServices, and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player plugin, our development team brings the excitement of 'the next generation Contouring Tool' to your fingertips. Whether you are connected to the internet, offline in an airplane, a Radiation Oncologist, a Residency student, a Physicist, a Dosimetrist, a Radiation Therapist or a Radiologist, EduCase™ can take you to the next level of online IMRT case delivery, training and collaboration.

Thinking Complete IMRT Case Communications? Think EduCase™!