UV SRPs & Series Description improvements needed

UV SRPs: SRPs can be great in some scenarios. I have had some success with SRPs but also have struggled especially at large facilities with multiple scanners.

In a nutshell, Series Description weighs heavy with SRPs. So large sites with say 5 or more scanners all with different series description names for the same series type, would be problematic for SRP consistency. I believe this is why we have so many challenges with Radiologists not being satisfied. Thus, if these scanners provide multiple series descriptions for the same series type, we cannot expect that SRPs will work efficiently. We always express to the customer that SRPs look to over 50 dicom tags to provide the results, yet, engineering confirmed when troubleshooting a site that the series description will impact more heavily than other dicom fields with the SRP result applied. Knowing this and understanding that most sites have multiple series descriptions for the same series type, often SRPs just don't work like we want and customers expect. This is the dissatisfaction we are hearing from Radiologists who are trying and wanting to use SRPs. We can suggest to sites to make their series descriptions the same on all scanners, but this can be challenging for many customers. Radiologists expect the SRP logic and algorithms to work efficiently with the data provided.

Engineering shared: SRP relies upon Series Description to extract multiple pieces of data that is factored into its similarity analysis. From the Series Description alone, we are extracting:

• Localizer*

• NearestOrthogonal*

• GroupBodyPart*

• GroupContrast

• SideOfOrgan

• ImagingTechnique

• ComSetting

• ReconstructionType

An additional SRP want: allow SRPs to save functions like rotate & flip. This is a common need for Radiologists reading MR Breast studies, and continues to be asked for.