A Flexible Database Architecture for Mining DICOM Objects: the DICOM Data Warehouse

DICOM Data from a Data Warehouse Design Perspective

Development of a teaching file by using a DICOM database.

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...

DICOM Web HTTP Service over Traditional DICOM DIMSE Service

Paper less offices is making a great impact all over the world including the healthcare industry with hospitals increasingly adopting this practice. The clinical images today are distributed across healthcare organizations and need to be catered to the physicians on demand, with Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) standards playing an important role in the storing and transpor...

Best Practices Strategy for Dealing with non-DICOM Data objects in a PACS-Neutral Archive

In this paper, I am presenting an argument for a best practices strategy for dealing with non-DICOM Medical Image Data Objects in a PACS Neutral-Archive (PNA). In this context, the data objects I am referring to are diagnostic image objects that are produced through a clinical study process. The key message of this white paper is that managing the non-DICOM data objects in a Neutral Archive in ...

Adaptive compression of DICOM-image data

In this article a method to classify digital images into three categories based on a provisional analysis of the image content and a subsequent compression with the help of a suitable algorithm of compression is proposed. To classify the images two parameters are used. The first parameter carries the frequency information about the image. It represents the mean of the absolute amplitude of the ...