Department & care
Imaging: from export to teaching material
Inventory an anonymized echocardiography or MRI export, sort the sequences, produce animated slides and quizzes.
Screenshot of a real tool · fictitious data, names blurred
The problem
The best teaching images lie dormant in imaging exports (DICOM) that are hard to browse. Turning them into animated loops in a presentation is slow and repetitive.
Step-by-step method
- Export with anonymization from the workstation or the PACS (the export’s anonymization function), into a local folder. Anonymise first: the patient banner is always cropped, and the fields burned into the image (name, date, identifier) are checked one by one.
- Have the export inventoried locally (Cowork or Claude Code): series, sequence types (views, Doppler, strain, cine, late gadolinium enhancement…).
- Sort and select the sequences that serve the teaching message.
- Generate a standardized PowerPoint: for example, four animated loops per slide, black background, technical information in the speaker notes.
- Build an image bank that can be filtered by sequence type and topic, and quizzes based on the cases.
- Compare over time: before/after treatment, visit by visit, with relative dating (baseline, 6 months), never a real date.
- Keep the proportions: never stretch; the frame adapts to the image, not the other way round; no cropping to compensate. With fewer than four loops, the group is re-centred on the slide.
- Choose the format to suit the image: GIF for greyscale MRI, MP4 for colour Doppler, with a poster image for each video.
- Check the short-axis stack before generating: slices ordered from base to apex, frames of each slice ordered by phase of the cardiac cycle.
- Transcribe the console measurements exactly as displayed: they are never recalculated.
Deliverable
Consistent animated slides, a teaching image bank and quizzes.
Safeguards
Files are processed on the workstation. Check that anonymization is effective (metadata and burned-in annotations) before any use outside the department.
Starter prompt
Here is an anonymized echocardiography export folder. Inventory the series, sort them by view and mode, and propose a selection of 8 loops for a workshop on ventricular function. Do not move any file.