Links

Links

Here is a list of links to useful Internet resources:

Cooperation partners

1 For training courses, the DICOM toolkit DCMTK, but also for other projects, I cooperate with the OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology: www.offis.de

2 Furthermore, I collaborate in the field of DICOM and IHE with Open Connections GmbH, a company also located in Oldenburg, Germany: www.open-connections.de

3 In the area of monitoring interoperability commitments, I support NOCON Nothhelfer Consulting Partnerschaft Diplom-Volkswirte: www.noconpartners.com

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)

1 The full text of the DICOM standard can be downloaded free of charge from the following NEMA web site: www.dicomstandard.org

2 The current status of the DICOM standard is clearly represented on the web site of David A. Clunie: www.dclunie.com

3 The Open Source DICOM toolkit DCMTK can be downloaded free of charge from the following web site, both in source code and in binary format (for the most important platforms): www.dcmtk.org

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

1 The complete IHE Technical Framework can be downloaded free of charge from the IHE web site: www.ihe.net

2 The best resource for information about the current development is the IHE wiki: wiki.ihe.net

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.