Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard

Context:
- It is available at: https://www.dicomstandard.org
- It is managed by the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association).
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See: National Electrical Manufacturers Association, ISO Standard, Data Transmission, Medical Imaging, Picture Archiving And Communication System, Hospital, File Format, Communications Protocol, TCP/IP.

References

(DICOM, 2022) ⇒ https://www.dicomstandard.org/about-home Retrieved:2022-02-27.
- QUOTE: DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine - is the international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use.
  DICOM is implemented in almost every radiology, cardiology imaging, and radiotherapy device (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc.), and increasingly in devices in other medical domains such as ophthalmology and dentistry. With hundreds of thousands of medical imaging devices in use, DICOM is one of the most widely deployed healthcare messaging Standards in the world. There are literally billions of DICOM images currently in use for clinical care.
  Since its first publication in 1993, DICOM has revolutionized the practice of radiology, allowing the replacement of X-ray film with a fully digital workflow. Much as the Internet has become the platform for new consumer information applications, DICOM has enabled advanced medical imaging applications that have “changed the face of clinical medicine”. From the emergency department, to cardiac stress testing, to breast cancer detection, DICOM is the standard that makes medical imaging work — for doctors and for patients.
  DICOM is recognized by the International Organization for Standardization as the ISO 12052 standard.

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM Retrieved:2021-11-29.
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data. DICOM is most commonly used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integration of medical imaging devices such as scanners, servers, workstations, printers, network hardware, and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) from multiple manufacturers. It has been widely adopted by hospitals and is making inroads into smaller applications such as dentists' and doctors' offices. DICOM files can be exchanged between two entities that are capable of receiving image and patient data in DICOM format. The different devices come with DICOM Conformance Statements which state which DICOM classes they support. The standard includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) holds the copyright to the published standard ^[1] which was developed by the DICOM Standards Committee, whose members are also partly members of NEMA. It is also known as NEMA standard PS3, and as ISO standard 12052:2017 "Health informatics – Digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) including workflow and data management".