BACKGROUND Clinical imaging data are typically stored and transferred in the DICOM format, whereas the NIfTI format has been widely adopted by scientists in the neuroimaging community. Therefore, a vital initial step in processing the data is to convert images from the complicated DICOM format to the much simpler NIfTI format. While there are a number of tools that usually handle DICOM to NIfTI...

The number of computed tomography examinations has continuously increased over the last decades and accounts for a major part of the collective radiation dose from medical investigations. For purposes of quality assurance in modern radiology a systematic monitoring and analysis of dose related data from radiological examinations is mandatory. Various ways of collecting dose data are available t...

DICOM is an international standard for the storage and transmission of medical image. With the popularity of pictorial and computerized medical equipments and the development of hospital management information system, the standard is widely used. The technologies of medical image display and processing based on DICOM standard are studied. On the basis of analyzing the DICOM standards and file f...

This paper describes an authoritative, non-proprietary information resource that provides an efficient mechanism for embedding specialized clinical knowledge into the design of healthcare telecommunications systems. The resource marries two types of data interchange standards, a message/electronic-document standard and a terminology standard. In technical terms, it is part protocol and part dat...

To meet the demand for high speed transmission of image, efficient image storage, remote treatment an efficient image compression technique is essential. Wavelet theory has great potential in medical image compression. Most of the commercial medical image viewers do not provide scalability in image compression. This paper discusses a medical application that contains a viewer for digital imagin...

Objective To design, build and evaluate a storage model able to manage heterogeneous DICOM images. The model must be simple, but flexible enough to accommodate variable content without structural modifications; must be effective on answering query/retrieval operations according to the DICOM standard, and must provide performance gains on querying/retrieving content to justify its adoption by im...

The PACS system built and used in hospitals nowadays has quite significant overload on its central server because of both treatment of very large data and full management of medical images. We suggest a distributed communication and management methodology using PC to PC multicasting strategy for efficient management of medical images produced by DICOM modalities. It is absolutely necessary for ...

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard used for distribution and viewing of medical images from different modalities. In this paper, we propose a method for compressing DICOM images based on the well-known Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) which possess the progressive transmission capabilities useful for telemedicine applications. This is in sharp con...

In the medical fields, images and reports of patients are increasingly being held in a digital form. To overcome the problem of heterogeneity due to the use of different devices between the various specialties, DICOM SR standard (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine for Structured Reporting) has emerged. For the medical imaging community taking advantage of this standard to improve me...