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Research for Academia

Empower global collaboration, secure data management, and groundbreaking discoveries.

Scientists in medical imaging often encounter barriers in data sharing, and access during collaborative research.

Managing project workflow and controlling access for project members across institutions is challenging and time consuming. Traditional research methods within the confines of individual institutions can hinder progress and limit the scope of studies.

Collective Minds Research for Academia is designed to enhance medical imaging research by providing a global platform for seamless collaboration across institutions.

Highlights

Intuitive Interface.
Seamless Integration.
Efficient Data sharing.
Scalability and flexibility.
Data Security and Confidentiality.
eCRFs

The system was very easy to use. Everything went really smoothly.

Prof. Jussi Hirvonen
Tampere University

Intuitive Interface

Research for Academia's platform is designed with user-friendliness at its core, ensuring an accessible and streamlined experience for all users, regardless of technical expertise. By simplifying data entry and management, the interface minimizes the learning curve and enhances user efficiency. Key features, including customizable templates, drag-and-drop functionality, and real-time data validation, are integrated to significantly boost productivity and optimize the overall user experience.

Seamless Integration

With CM Connect, seamlessly integrate your hospital or local systems to enable automatic sharing of DICOM studies. The platform ensures that all data is securely de-identified and pseudonymized before it leaves your local environment, facilitating quicker and easier data sharing while maintaining strict confidentiality standards.

Scalability and flexibility

Collective Minds Research for Academia is designed to scale effortlessly, accommodating growth and adapting to evolving needs. It offers flexible, customizable workflows that ensure the system remains responsive and adaptable to changing demands.

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Easy, intuitive, and after just some minutes of training, the team was ready to go." The clear design of the solution had also a very motivating and encouraging effect on the reader."

Dr. Anselm Schulz
Oslo University Hospital

Data Security and Confidentiality

Collective Minds provides a secure processing environment. The platform has been designed to comply with the strongest worldwide regulations and data protection laws, such as GDPR, and with the most stringent information security standards like ISO 27001.

Clinical-grade DICOM viewer

Image Review: Clinical-grade DICOM viewer allows for detailed image analysis.
The visualization tool includes, among others:

Segmentation and Annotation
Presenter tools with fading arrows and draws
Advance measurement tools
PET-CT, Mr and NM Fusion
Histogram
Calibration line
Ruler y Text Annotations
MPR: Orthogonal, Axial, Coronal, Sagittal, MISTs
CINE
Window Level
Crosshair
MPR Oblique MIST feature with MPR/MIP/3D rendering.
Reference lines
Align and Lock
Sync Windowing.

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eCRFs (Electronic Case Report Forms)

Customized eCRFs allow for comprehensive and tailored assessments, streamlining data collection and analysis.

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Researchers

+400

Research projects

+200

Institutions connected directly to Collective Minds

Academic studies for clinical researchers

Seamlessly gather data from collaborating institutions, share it globally, and receive input from readers worldwide.
Design projects using the pipeline tool, assigning events to dedicated roles.
Customize events with tools like data upload, clinical-grade DICOM image review, and eCRF assessments.
All project members have personalized task lists aligned with the project pipeline.
Maintain control over access permissions, ensuring oversight of project progress for all subjects, anytime.

Clinical audit and validation projects for hospitals

Run your internal or external radiology clinical audit by allowing internal or external expert to review your reports and cases according to specific quality criteria.

Did the radiology report correctly mention the relevant findings?

Was the clinical significance of those findings clearly communicated?

We provide a comprehensive service for clinical audits including access to sub-speciality radiology experts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What can I use Collective Minds Research for Academia for?

Collective Minds Research for Academia is designed to support a variety of imaging-based research projects, including:

Medical imaging research
Reader studies
Clinical trials
Research consortia
Clinical audits
AI-validation studies

Why should I use Collective Minds Research for Academia?

Collective Minds is a clinically robust platform, supporting secure data collection and collaboration across multiple sites. Whether you’re organizing a multi-institution research consortium or need a flexible tool for managing imaging data, Collective Minds provides the features and compliance framework needed for academic research.

See also: What are the benefits of using Collective Minds Research for Academia?

What specialties can it be used for?

Collective Minds is suitable for any medical specialty or modality to facilitate your research within medical imaging. The clinical grade dicom viewer supports all clinical imaging modalities, providing all the commonly used tools normally available in a hospital PACS

What are the benefits of using Collective Minds Research for Academia?

Whenever you want to collect data from multiple institutions or make a data set available to project members around the world, Collective Minds is the perfect platform to facilitate your project.

The platform also facilitates project steering through roles, tasks, and permissions, allowing you to manage the activities and members of your project effectively.

The versioning and logging of all activities ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and saves you a lot of documentation work!

How fast can I start to use Collective Minds Research for Academia?

As soon as you are a customer of Collective Minds Research you will have your own repository and can start setting up your project(s) right away.

If you are not a customer yet, but curious to see for your self how it works, send an email to support@cmrad.com, and we will provide you with access to our Customer Playground, to get the "look-and-feel" for yourself

Are there customizable privacy settings to control access to sensitive information?

Access to the data in your project/repository is controlled through roles and permissions, ensuring full control over what the different members can access. In addition all activities are logged and versioned, ensuring full transparency. Personal sensitive information is not stored on Collective Minds.

What are the financial options available for purchasing and maintaining your platform?

The most common financial option is a subscription-based model, i.e., a monthly cost for the platform access. Payments can be made on a yearly, quarterly, or monthly basis.
In some cases, a project cost is more suitable than a monthly fee.

Contact sales@cmrad.com for more information.

Do you offer flexible pricing plans based on our usage needs and budget constraints?

Yes, the pricing is based on the customer's needs. We offer various tiers of pricing based on the scope. Reach out to sales@cmrad.com for more details regarding pricing options.

Are there additional costs for scaling our usage or adding more users?

The pricing follows the price plan agreed with you upon initial signatures. If the usage is increased above the initial agreement, the pricing might be increased and follow the various tiers in our pricing table.

How does your platform handle collaboration among users and teams?

You have the ability to configure permissions for each project member, allowing you to grant access to shared tasks or to make results visible to all members of the project. Invitation to a project can be done directly through entering of email address and name.

Are there tools for real-time collaboration, such as video conferencing or shared document editing?

We don’t offer a built-in video conferencing tool, but you can utilize any third-party service of your choice. Real-time collaborative editing for documents is not available; however, you can store and share documents within the platform, controlling access in the same way you would for imaging data.

Can users from different institutions collaborate seamlessly on projects or research?

Absolutely. You can assign roles and site affiliations for collaborators from any institution, making multi-institutional research straightforward.

What integration options do you offer with other educational or research tools?

CMRAD can receive cases sent from the local PACS, provided that the CM Connect is installed. The results will be exported in .csv format, making them compatible for import into any system that supports this format. Collective Minds Research can also integrate 3rd party analysis tools, for example, for an AI validation study.

Is your platform compatible with our existing IT infrastructure and software?

CMRAD Connect is compatible with all PACS systems as long as they can add another destination/node.

CMRAD platform is cloud-based and accessible as long as you are connected to the internet."

How easy is it to migrate our current data and workflows onto your platform?

There are three methods available for uploading data into CMRAD:

1. Connect: This option allows you to push cases directly from your PACS system.

2. Web Upload: Upload cases individually and directly into the pipeline when stored locally on your computer.

3. Bulk Transfer via sFTP: As a premium service, we can handle ingesting your data into the platform through bulk transfer.

Existing workflows will need to build the pipeline directly within the system."

What level of technical support do you provide, and what are the response times?

The deployment engineers will assist you with installing CMRAD Connect.

The Customer Success team will support you with project configurations and platform features tailored to the specifics of your agreement.

Our office hours are from 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday.

Are there training resources or support materials available to help onboard our team?

Yes, customer success will educate super users on the platform. We have help articles here:
help.cmrad.com

How frequently do you update your platform, and how do you handle feature requests?

Our platform undergoes regular updates, including major feature releases several times a year and ongoing critical patches and security enhancements.

We prioritize feature requests based on a structured process considering client feedback, market trends, and technical feasibility. Feature requests are evaluated based on their potential impact and alignment with our roadmap. Our release announcements and newsletters keep clients informed about major updates and new features.

Can we customize the platform to meet specific institutional or departmental needs?

The platform itself allows complex and customized configurations. New customized features can be developed if stated in the agreement. The cost and the timeline depend on the complexity of the feature

What analytics and reporting capabilities does your platform offer?

The results will be exported in .csv format, making it easy to import them into any statistical analysis software that supports this format, such as Excel. The results can also be stored as uneditable reports, where delivery is managed and logged through the platform. As of today, the platform does not offer built-in analytics tools.

How do you ensure the long-term reliability and sustainability of your platform?

We prioritize platform reliability and sustainability through a robust, multi-layered approach.

Our scalable cloud infrastructure enables dynamic resource allocation. Automated monitoring and alerting systems proactively identify and mitigate potential issues.

Regular code and infrastructure reviews, adherence to industry best practices, and rigorous testing and internal controls ensure platform stability. Our comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan safeguards data integrity and platform resilience.

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Data compliance

Setting up a research collaboration with a single or multiple sites requires a project legal framework to comply with data privacy legislation. We ensure your project’s data controllers can remain in control, acting as a data processor on behalf of your project. Once the project is running, quality control and versioning of data and results ensure project quality. Using our archiving services, long-term reproducibility is ensured.

Data Protection & Security