Skin dose assessment in interventional radiology (IR) procedures can be made retrospectively by using the dose-area product (DAP) registered and data provided by the DICOM header, in facilities having a PACS or other alternative image archiving system, such as medical CD-ROM under DICOM standard. Patient skin dose evaluation based on this method can help to decide on the need for further clinic...

Our goal was to develop a system that would allow us to recreate live patient arterial pathology by using an industrial technique known as stereolithography (or rapid prototyping). In industry, drawings rendered into dicom files can be exported to a computer programmed to drive various industrial tools. Those tools then make a 3D structure shown by the original drawings. We manipulated CT scan ...

INTRODUCTION Digital imaging has become the most prominent modality in medicine. Beside computed tomography (CT) or nuclear medicine, which have been always digital, plain radiography, endoscopy, and microscopy are nowadays captured directly digital, too. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been established in the hospitals all over the world to manage these information reso...

Although digital teaching files are important to radiology education, there are no current satisfactory solutions for export of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images from picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in desktop publishing format. A vendor-neutral digital teaching file, the Radiology Interesting Case Server (RadICS), offers an efficient tool for harv...

The information contained in a DICOM image is very crucial for telemedicine, tele-radiology and other medical diagnosis and prognostic applications. In the field of medical transcription there have been various techniques in detecting the edge of an image. In most of the computer vision systems, DICOM image is considered as a standard digital imaging process of storing, capturing and transmitti...

Delivering of medical image content to mobile/embedded devices with low storage and processing capabilities and low resolution displays is a challenging, but important task for achieving ubiquitous computing in modern hospital environments. The common approaches in industry and technical literature employ JPEG2000 compression and image streaming. Beside image compression, JPEG2000 facilitates i...

2000 by the America DICOM cardiac standard became universally accepted throughout the world as the only method appropriate for exchange of digital angiographic images. More recently, the DICOM Standards Committee has adopted a high-resolution standard, defined as 1024 1024 pixel images with up to 12 bits (4096 levels) of gray scale per pixel. The large quantities of digital data required to rep...

Quantitative analysis of clinical image data is an active area of research that holds promise for precision medicine, early assessment of treatment response, and objective characterization of the disease. Interoperability, data sharing, and the ability to mine the resulting data are of increasing importance, given the explosive growth in the number of quantitative analysis methods being propose...

Extremely large medical images, like ones of virtual slide microscopy, are beyond some limitations of the DICOM standard (e.g., a 4 Gbyte barrier, caused by 32-bit architecture). Some solutions and trade-offs have been already proposed and included in the DICOM standard (e.g., usage of JPEG2000 image compression standard, JPEG2000 interactive protocol [JPIP] and division of the images into smal...