title: Documenting the information content of images.
abstract: A standards-based message and terminology architecture has been specified to enable large-scale open and non-proprietary interchange of imaging-procedure descriptions and image-interpretation reports providing semantically-rich linkage of linguistic and non-linguistic information. The DICOM Structured Reporting Supplement, now available for trial use, embodies this interdependent message/terminology architecture. A DICOM structured report object is a self-describing information structure that can be tailored to support diverse clinical observation reporting applications by utilization of templates and context-dependent terminology from an external message/terminology mapping resource such as the SNOMED DICOM Microglossary (SDM), HL7 Vocabulary, or Terminology Resource for Message Standards (TeRMS).
authors.affiliation: Duke University Center for Healthcare Informatics, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Bidgood
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled