Most of the commercial medical image viewers do not provide scalability in image compression and/or encoding/decoding of region of interest (ROI). This paper discusses a medical application that contains a viewer for digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) images as a core module. The proposed application enables scalable wavelet-based compression, retrieval, and decompression of...

A teaching file of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images was developed. Selected computed tomographic, magnetic resonance, angiographic, nuclear medicine, and ultrasonographic images were transferred to a personal computer (PC) with a 75-GB hard drive. The database created from the DICOM header information was modified to include American College of Radiology (ACR) Learn...

Currently, in radiotherapy (RT) departments, there are different manufacturers and stand-alone information systems (IS) for single-purpose applications. These systems have most of the data distributed through different IS. The DICOM-RT extension has six objects that provide a standardized way of transferring the information circulating in the external beam RT. The aim of this study is to assess...

Image classification is a most important step for image analysis. As the same in medical area especially for diagnosing the disease of the patient, classification plays a great role for the doctors to treat the patient according to the severeness of the diseases. In case of DICOM images it is very tough for optimal identification and early detection of diseases. Classification is a computationa...

In this paper, a distributed PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) using a network shared file system is proposed. Several distributed hospitals and sites use PACS to manage medical images. For these distributed sites to work together, it is necessary to construct integrated PACS for these distributed files. In the proposed system, the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in M...

Problem statement: One of the most common degradations in medical images is their poor contrast quality and noise. The DICOM image consists of speckle (multiplicative noise). While the image is enhanced, the multiplicative noise present in the image is also enhanced. Approach: This study describes the hybrid method to improve the image quality of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether standardizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) display devices to the digital imaging and communications in medicine part 14: greyscale standard display function (DICOM part 14: GSDF) would affect the presentation of dental images. METHODS Two COTS display devices from the radiology department of a dental teaching hospital and a laptop computer monitor for ref...