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JAMIA 2002;9:63-72 doi:10.1136/jamia.2002.0090063
  • Original Investigation
  • Model Formulation

Information Object Definition–based Unified Modeling Language Representation of DICOM Structured Reporting

A Case Study of Transcoding DICOM to XML

  1. Alfredo Tirado-Ramos,
  2. Jingkun Hu,
  3. K P Lee
  1. Affiliation of the authors: Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, New York
  1. Correspondence and reprint requests: Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, 345 Scarborough Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510-2099; e-mail: <alfredo.tirado-ramos{at}philips.com>
  • Received 12 December 2000
  • Accepted 25 July 2001

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.

Footnotes

  • ↵* Health Level 7 (HL7) is currently developing the Clinical Document Architecture (HL7 CDA), formerly known as Patient Record Architecture (HL7 PRA), an XML-based structure reference architecture for markup.

  • ↵† Integration work is currently under way within the joint effort known as Image Integration Group in HL7 and Workgroup 20 in DICOM.

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