DICOM extensions for narrow-band networks.
DICOM is today's de-facto standard for exchanging medical images. Since new image acquisition devices produce more and more image and non-image data, image compression has become an important part of the standard. However, the compression of non-pixel data also stored in DICOM data sets has been disregarded up to now. In the scope of an EU research project we have examined a large amount of real-world DICOM images to test whether or not there is a potential for compressing the non-pixel attributes. Especially for use with narrow-band networks extensions as proposed in this paper could be a solution to save valuable bandwidth.
Riesmeier
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OFFIS e.V., 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.
Eichelberg
M
M
Lemoine
D
D
Punys
V
V
Balogh
N
N
Jensch
P
P
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D019112:Teleradiology