In our recent paper “A simple tool for neuroimaging data sharing,” we introduced a system for sharing DICOM data. Addressing anonymization, we mentioned DICOM Supplement 551, the National Cancer Institute deidentification profile, and the default deidentification profile in XNAT’s DICOM Browser and noted the disagreement in these various anonymization profiles. While a careful analysis of anony...

The package oro.dicom facilitates the interaction with and manipulation of medical imaging data that conform to the DICOM standard. DICOM data, from a single file or single directory or directory tree, may be uploaded into R using basic data structures: a data frame for the header information and a matrix for the image data. A list structure is used to organize multiple DICOM files. The convers...

This work presents BrachyGuide, a brachytherapy-dedicated software tool for the automatic preparation of input files for Monte Carlo simulation from treatment plans exported in DICOM RT format, and results of calculations performed for its benchmarking. Three plans were prepared using two computational models, the image series of a water sphere and a multicatheter breast brachytherapy patient, ...

The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) protocol is currently the ubiquitous standard for the communication of medical images and related data within the radiology department. However, seamless image distribution within the healthcare enterprise and especially with research and educational information systems is still hard to achieve, as software developers of such third-part...

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...

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...

RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems is one of the most complex delivery systems currently available, and achieves an entire intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment in a single gantry rotation about the patient. Three dynamic parameters can be continuously varied to create IMRT dose distributions-the speed of rotation, beam shaping aperture and delivery do...

Informational systems and the standardization of data transfer protocols have become an important part of nowadays medical world. Software applications transformed themselves into an indispensable tool for the specialist engaged in the medical act. In this sense, the use of information and communication technology has influenced greatly the fast and reliable (also secure) transmission of medica...

CytometryML is a proposed new Analytical Cytology (Cytomics) data standard, which is based on a common set of XML schemas for encoding flow cytometry and digital microscopy text based data types (metadata). CytometryML schemas reference both DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) codes and FCS keywords. Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) list-mode has been mapped to the DICOM Wavefor...

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...