Information object definition-based unified modeling language representation of DICOM structured reporting: a case study of transcoding DICOM to XML.

Full Abstract

Supplement 23 to DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications for Medicine), Structured Reporting, is a specification that supports a semantically rich representation of image and waveform content, enabling experts to share image and related patient information. DICOM SR supports the representation of textual and coded data linked to images and waveforms. Nevertheless, the medical information technology community needs models that work as bridges between the DICOM relational model and open object-oriented technologies. The authors assert that representations of the DICOM Structured Reporting standard, using object-oriented modeling languages such as the Unified Modeling Language, can provide a high-level reference view of the semantically rich framework of DICOM and its complex structures. They have produced an object-oriented model to represent the DICOM SR standard and have derived XML-exchangeable representations of this model using World Wide Web Consortium specifications. They expect the model to benefit developers and system architects who are interested in developing applications that are compliant with the DICOM SR specification.

Author information

Author/s: Tirado-Ramos, Alfredo (A); Hu, Jingkun (J); Lee, K P (KP);

Affiliation: Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA. alfredo.tirado-ramos(-atsign-)philips.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (J Am Med Inform Assoc), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 Jan-Feb; vol 9 (issue 1) : pp 63-71

Dates: Created 2001/12/25; Completed 2002/02/19; Revised 2008/11/20;

PMID: 11751804, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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