The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard 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 in...

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...

Most medical images are archived and transmitted using the DICOM format. The DICOM information model combines image pixel data and associated metadata into a single object. It is not possible to access the metadata separately from the pixel data. However, there are important use cases that only need access to metadata, and the DICOM format increases the running time of those use cases. Tag morp...

Multiprotocol medical imaging communication through the Internet is more flexible than the tight DICOM transfers. This paper introduces a modular multiprotocol teleradiology architecture that integrates DICOM and common Internet services (based on web, FTP, and E-mail) into a unique operational domain. The extended WADO service (a web extension of DICOM) and the other proposed services allow ac...

Capturing clinical observations and findings during the diagnostic imaging process is increasingly becoming a critical step in diagnostic reporting. Standards developers—notably HL7 and DICOM—are making significant progress toward standards that enable exchanging clinical observations and findings among the various information systems of the healthcare enterprise. DICOM—like the HL7 Clinical Do...

The DICOM standard defines in detail how medical images can be transmitted and stored. However, there have been no precise rules on how to interpret the parameters contained in a DICOM image which deal with the image presentation. As a result, the same image frequently looks different when displayed on different workstations or printed on a film from various printers. Three new DICOM extensions...

Content: In 1998, I proposed that the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry should replace their present Flow Cytometry Standard with an implementation in DICOM and work with the DICOM developers. After this suggestion was rejected, I suggested an XML implementation based upon DICOM to the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry Data Standards Task Force. Technology: XML...