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Mifar NewsMarch 16th 2006 -- The Mifar source tree now uses the bazaar distributed revision control tool. The 0.6.3 and 0.7 development versions are available using http. Instructions for getting started with mifar development using bazaar are available online.Sept 6th 2005 -- Tracking and reporting of lung histograms and lung hole distributions has been added to the dpi domain to support the MESAlung multi-center clinical trial. June 22nd 2005 -- Improved radiologist reporting has been added to the pulmonary domain. Abnormal lung parenchyma conditions such as emphysema, fibrosis, bronchiectasis etc. can be tracked at the lobar level, thanks to Edwin van Beek, and Xinghua Yu. Feb 14th 2005 -- The next generation of mifar (version 0.7) now uses the cross platform SConstruct tool for build and installation on windows, linux and MacOS. Sept. 9th 2004 -- A new mifar client application has arrived. Pocky a program for viewing DICOM files directly from mifar without the download/unzip hassles has been added to the mifar sources by John Meinel. May 20th 2004 -- A Developers Mailing List has been setup to facilitate communication. Anyone interested in MIFAR developement is encouraged to sign up at: xia.i-clic.uihc.uiowa.edu/mailman/listinfo/mifar-developers. The sign-up page also has information on how to make source code contribtions via patch files. For now there is no built in way to search the list though you might try using a google advanced search. Follow this link for older news items. IntroductionWe began creating MIFAR due to our need to organize the huge volumes of data involved in Academic Radiology. We needed a system that could:
MIFAR is a set of software tools for storing medical image data along with other associated post-image processing files, physiologic records, lab notes, etc. In addition to storing the data, MIFAR provides a framework for batch processing of image data. The heart of the system is a relational database that coordinates the activities of multiple small server programs spread across a network. MIFAR is an open source project. The database stored procedures as well as the small servers are being written under the GNU General Public License. Interfaces to the server are under the GNU Lesser General Public License so that anyone can communicate with a MIFAR server system. At this point we are using PostgreSQL as our database engine due to its extraordinary flexibility. After we have a initial working version we plan to support using Oracle as the database engine. SupportMIFAR development is supported in part by the following:
DocumentationCurrently we are at the pre-alpha development stage so no user level documentation exists at this point. MIFAR developer documentation is posted to this site as it is created. The original design document is on-line as well.Developers
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