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  • EduCase™ software

    EduCase™ software

    The EduCase™ system, developed by RadOnc eLearning Center, Inc., is a sophisticated computer-based training tool designed to enhance the structure segmentation (contouring) abilities of radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and dosimetrists. Read More
  • Organizational Workshops

    Organizational Workshops

    The EduCase™ system offers a comprehensive range of online e-contouring workshops, webinars and events in collaboration with esteemed organizations such as ESTRO, ASTRO, IAEA and many others. For further information, please visit our Events & Workshops page. Read More
  • EduMod™ courses

    EduMod™ courses

    The EduMod™ program, which incorporates the advanced EduCase™ software and other pedagogical tools, has been developed as a Web-based program that utilizes education modules to impart and assess the radiation oncology skills of the users in a highly effective and efficient manner, surpassing the alternatives available in the market. Read More
  • EduCase™ Metric Tools

    EduCase™ Metric Tools

    The EduCase platform has recently incorporated new features to its metric results section, which enables educators to analyze and visualize the results of their contouring in relation to the gold standard contours. This is achieved through the implementation of advanced charting, which includes the display and print of p-values obtained from Wilcoxon signed-rank analysis, using the Dice, Jaccard, Hausdorff, and Volume metrics. This addition is significant as it provides educators with a valuable tool for evaluating and improving their contouring skills. Read More
  • Residency programs

    Residency programs

    Provide your residents with access to your own library of cases to engage in practical exercises with self-testing associated with treatment plans for specific disease sites. Radiation Oncology Residency training programs are offered multi-year subscriptions to EduCase™ at a special rate. Read More
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EduCase

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EduCas Main UI 320X248EduCase is a computer-based training tool developed by RadOnc eLearning Center, LLC., to assist the development of structure segmentation (contouring) skills of radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and dosimetrists. The EduCase tool can be used in a number of contexts. It is used by professional radiation oncology societies as a part of special courses offered to teach segmentation skills. It is accessible primarily on the Internet through a RadOnc eLearning portal.

The current version of the program assumes a particular training process. A mentor (eg. a respected radiation oncologist) selects a clinical case for which a planning CT scan and perhaps MRI and PET/CT studies have been acquired. The mentor contours selected clinically relevant regions of interest using an available treatment planning system and gives the structures appropriate names. The image studies and named segmented structures are uploaded to the EduCase server utilizing DICOM export features available on the treatment planning system. The case is automatically made anonymous by the EduCase uploading software. The case is then used by the mentor in a teaching session.

Students in the teaching session have access to the EduCase software over the Internet before, during, and after the training session. The student is provided passwords that gain access to the EduCase software and data over an available Internet connection. The case and the mentor's pre-loaded structures are loaded into the EduCase software by students before the teaching session, during the teaching session, and after the teaching session from the Internet.

Before the teaching session, the student is instructed by the mentor to contour a specific number of structures (using the mentor's names) on specified ranges of axial reconstruction planes. This first attempt is saved over the Internet on the EduCase server. During the teaching session, after the student has received instruction on what clinical and anatomical features determine the boundaries of target and normal anatomy structures, the student makes a second attempt to segment the regions and saves their second attempt contours. After a selected time interval of some weeks or months, the students make a third attempt to segment the specified structures and saves their contours again using an available Internet connection to the EduCase server.

The EduCase software provides metrics for scoring and comparing all of the students' segmentation attempts. The EduCase software facilities available to the mentor and the student provide means for the mentor to determine the skills of students before a training session. The second attempt results are available to the mentor immediately during the training session so that they can provide real-time remediation to the session attendees. The third attempt metrics provide the students and the mentor with an assessment of the long-term retention of the students' skill acquisition.