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DICOM Training Dates 2026

  • September 2025
  • J. Riesmeier
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Meanwhile, the dates for the training courses I will offer and conduct next year together with the OFFIS institute and the Open Connections GmbH have been fixed:

  • 27 to 30 April 2026:
    • DICOM Intensive Course (2 days)
    • DICOM Advanced (2 days)
  • 5 to 8 October 2026:
    • DICOM Intensive Course (2 days)
    • DICOM Tools and Troubleshooting (2 days)

The contents and further details are described on the DICOM page of the organizer. There, you can also register for the courses.

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What is DICOM?

DICOM is the world-wide accepted standard for medical image communi­cation. The standard defines data structures and services for the vendor-independent exchange of medical images and related information. There are also definitions for waveforms, structured medical reports and other medical data / documents. Most imaging devices and many other systems in the healthcare domain implement one or more DICOM services. The standard text is freely available from the NEMA web site www.dicomstandard.org.

Who am I?

My name is Jörg Riesmeier and my first contact with DICOM was as a student of Computer Science in the mid 90s. Since then, I was concerned with many different topics of the standard. For example, my diploma thesis dealt with the processing and, in particular, the display of the very flexible but also complex DICOM image format. In the context of my doctoral thesis, I studied DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) and its visualization in detail. Furthermore, for many years now, I am one of the main developers of the Open Source DICOM toolkit DCMTK.