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Getting Started with AltaDB

AltaDB is RedBrick AI’s integrated high-performance medical imaging storage solution, providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud storage systems like AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Orthanc. AltaDB is specifically optimized for DICOM data with medical imaging-specific features and organization.
AltaDB Overview

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Accessing AltaDB

AltaDB is now fully integrated into the RedBrick AI platform. To access AltaDB features:
  1. Log in to your RedBrick AI account
  2. Navigate to the AltaDB section in your dashboard
  3. Your AltaDB datasets will be available within your RedBrick AI organization

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Understanding AltaDB Structure

Within your RedBrick AI organization, AltaDB allows you to organize your data into multiple Datasets. A Dataset is a collection of DICOM studies and/or individual series.
Organization Structure

AltaDB dataset structure within RedBrick AI

All DICOM data is indexed by series using the Series Instance UID DICOM headers and automatically organized into series within your dataset. Once indexing is complete, you can view all DICOM headers and search/filter your dataset by Series Instance UID, Study UID, or Patient ID.
AltaDB will not maintain the original folder structure of your uploads. The folder structure will be traversed, and individual series will be extracted and indexed for optimal performance.
Folder Structure

How AltaDB processes folder structures

If AltaDB encounters an invalid DICOM file in a Series, the entire Series will be skipped during import.

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Importing Data

  1. Navigate to your AltaDB dataset in RedBrick AI
  2. Click Import Data to open the data importer
  3. Either:
    • Drag & drop your DICOM files into the importer, or
    • Click to browse and select files from your device
  4. AltaDB will index the DICOM headers and apply state-of-the-art compression
  5. Monitor import progress in the Imports tab
You can specify a top-level directory to recursively upload all valid DICOM files in subdirectories when using the drag & drop interface.
AltaDB recognizes the following file extensions as valid DICOM files:
  • *.dicom
  • *.dcm
  • *.ima

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Viewing Data

Within your AltaDB dataset, preview images by clicking on thumbnails. The integrated viewer supports:
  1. Change slice: Mouse scroll
  2. Windowing: Right-click+drag
  3. Zoom: Left-click+drag
  4. Pan: Middle mouse+drag

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Searching & Filtering

Filter your AltaDB dataset by:
  1. Series UID
  2. Study UID
  3. Import ID: Unique identifier for each import batch
  4. Created by: User who uploaded the series
  5. Imported at: Upload date and time

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Using AltaDB in RedBrick AI Projects

Since AltaDB is integrated into RedBrick AI, you can directly use your AltaDB datasets in projects. You can either add it to your project or workspace directly from AltaDB or by downloading a JSON file.
Export Options

Selecting AltaDB data for RedBrick AI projects

Uploading data to a project

Uploading JSON data

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Task Configuration Options

When creating tasks from AltaDB datasets, you can include:
Group by Study

Task grouping options

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Performance Demonstrations

Experience the speed improvements with AltaDB:

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Getting Help

For assistance with AltaDB: