Services

For more than 25 years, I am concerned with standards in the field of medical image communication. My services include training, consulting and software development in the field of DICOM and IHE.

DICOM is the standard for medical image communication, which is also available as an international standard (ISO EN 12052) for many years now. Besides HL7 it builds the skeletal structure for any kind of vendor-independent communication between medical systems. With IHE there is also a detailed guidance on how these two standards can be used for building complex workflows in a hospital or medical practice.

In the past years, I have been able to work in many different medical fields where the DICOM standard is used, e.g. radiology, cardiology, radiotherapy, ophthalmology or pathology. Furthermore, I have also worked in the field of non-destructive material testing (NDT), where the DICONDE standard is increasingly used.

If you have any questions regarding my service offer, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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 dicom.nema.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.