OBJECTIVE The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Structured Reporting (SR) standard improves the expressiveness, precision, and comparability of documentation about diagnostic images and waveforms. It supports the interchange of clinical reports in which critical features shown by images and waveforms can be denoted unambiguously by the observer, indexed, and retrieved selec...

specifies a non-proprietary data interchange protocol, digital image format, and file structure for biomedical images and image-related information. The fundamental concepts of the DICOM message protocol, services, and information objects are reviewed as background for a detailed discussion of the functionality of DICOM; the innovations and limitations of the Standard; and the impact of various...

We describe a method of converting postprocessed functional MR images to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard and sending these DICOM images directly into any picture archiving and communication system (PACS) or stand-alone DICOM database. This method provides system-wide access and archiving of previously research-only applications, it permits the clinical review...

Similar to Medicine, digital communication, information processing, and x-ray imaging have changed the face of dentistry. The incorporation of digital systems into medical and dental practice has necessitated development of a standard that allows reliable transmission of information between the devices taking the images, devices storing the images, and devices displaying the images. This standa...

The image diagnosis area is the most propense medical field to Telemedicine, because it does not obligate a direct contact of the patient with the responsible radiologist during the building of the report. The persistent lack of specialists on places distant from urban centers makes the Telemedicine an important tool for improvement of healthcare services. In this work we present a framework, c...

Cytometry Markup Language, CytometryML, is a proposed new analytical cytology data standard. CytometryML is a set of XML schemas for encoding both flow cytometry and digital microscopy text based data types. CytometryML schemas reference both DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) codes and FCS keywords. These schemas provide representations for the keywords in FCS 3.0 and will ...

OBJECTIVE To support clinically relevant indexing of biomedical images and image-related information based on the attributes of image acquisition procedures and the judgments (observations) expressed by observers in the process of image interpretation. DESIGN The authors introduce the notion of "image acquisition context," the set of attributes that describe image acquisition procedures, and ...

DICOM format has been recognized as the de facto standard for storage, transferring and sharing of cardiac images along different modalities like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Medicine, Computer Tomography (CT), Digital Angiography (XA), Digital Radiology. However, in many medical environments there is a large need to have cardiac images available in formats (i.e. GIF, BMP or JPEG) ...

We present preliminary results toward developing a video server that integrates security mechanisms and digital monoand stereoscopic video sequences (DSVS) into the DICOM standard. The use of public networks such as the Internet for transmitting patientspecific data must comply with local legislation on data security and integrity. The typical heterogeneous hardware and software infrastructure ...

Oberflächenscanner werden zunehmend in der Medizin genutzt. Im Gegensatz zu radiologischen Modalitäten wie CT, MRT oder Ultraschall ist aber die Anbindung an einen zentralen Datenspeicher und die Kombination der Geräte mit Produkten unterschiedlicher Hersteller noch nicht möglich. Dadurch werden die Arbeitsabläufe zur Langzeitarchivierung der Daten erschwert, sowie Interoperabilität zwischen Sy...