[optimal] Re: Monitor calibration
- From: sandor ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:54:31 -0400
That is exactly what monitor calibration will address.
You will get consistent brightness, contrast and color output from
all the calibrated monitors.
-sandor
On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Cynthia VandenHoven <cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> One of my findings is that the images look great on the capture monitor but
> then look underexposed on the review stations and when exported out the EMR.
> I needed to reduce the brightness of some of the capture monitors but using a
> proper calibration tool would be a better approach.
>
> The colour on RetCam is not related to the monitor. That is another
> discussion altogether.
>
> thanks for your feedback.
> Cynthia
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Sandor Ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> When i first started, i called OIS and got an "OK" from them very easily
>> when i broached it from a service-request point of view. It was perhaps even
>> easier because we had multiple OIS-backed fundus cameras, and the same
>> fundus looked quite different on each camera.
>>
>> Then i just went ahead and installed it everywhere else - the software has a
>> small footprint, and it creates a conventional ICC profile to replace the
>> default Windows/Macintosh profile. I figured if a problem arose, i would
>> uninstall the software first to see if it fixed the problem, then call the
>> vendor. I had far more problems when a vendor shipped a CPU to us with
>> Windows auto update on, and the second day we had it the camera was
>> non-working - turns out Windows auto installed an XP service pack and broke
>> the system.
>>
>> I couldn't get it to work properly on the RetCam :)
>>
>> But, in workflow terms, color balancing the review computers/emr
>> workstations was the biggest concern - color images would look different on
>> all the doctors monitors, all the clinic monitors, etc. We wanted to match
>> all of these monitors so that our PACS system (Axis) looks identical for
>> review. In light of that, our IT made it easy and put the Data Color
>> software into their package thingy that rolled out to all the workstations.
>> An hour or two walking through the hospital with the USB color sensor and we
>> had the calibration done.
>>
>> Theoretically, if you are not doing image review on the capture stations &
>> the vendors are giving you grief about trying to provide doctors with
>> matching color, you could simply color correct the review workstations and
>> leave it at that.
>>
>> i could go on, but ill try to stop here...
>>
>> sandor
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Cynthia VandenHoven
>> <cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Thanks Sandor,
>>>
>>> Did you have issues with installing the software on your systems? We have
>>> issues with our vendors saying installing this or any software can void
>>> warranties.
>>>
>>> Is there any getting around this?
>>> cynthia
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:03 PM, sandor ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Cynthia,
>>>> http://spyder.datacolor.com/portfolio-view/spyder4pro/
>>>>
>>>> I use this for 17 exam rooms and all of our photography suite monitors.
>>>>
>>>> easy to use, relatively cheap and all the monitors now match (after all,
>>>> what is "right" color?)
>>>>
>>>> the downside was that we had to replace handful of monitors because they
>>>> were not physically able to be color corrected, mostly older models with
>>>> very dim backlights.
>>>>
>>>> -sandor
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 4, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia VandenHoven
>>>> <cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> What monitor calibration device and software would you recommend to
>>>>> calibrate your imaging systems and monitors within your clinic network?
>>>>>
>>>>> If price were no object and you wanted the best most reliable, what would
>>>>> you order?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Cynthia
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cynthia VandenHoven
>>>>> Hospital for Sick Children
>>>>> Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
>>>>> 416-813-6523
>>>>> cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cynthia VandenHoven
>>> Hospital for Sick Children
>>> Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
>>> 416-813-6523
>>> cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> --
> Cynthia VandenHoven
> Hospital for Sick Children
> Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
> 416-813-6523
> cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxxxx
> cynthia.vandenhoven@xxxxxxxxx
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