title: Establishing a Web-based DICOM teaching file authoring tool using open-source public software.
abstract: Online teaching files are an important source of educational and referential materials in the radiology community. The commonly used Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) file format of the radiology community is not natively supported by common Web browsers. The ability of the Web server to convert and parse DICOM is important when the DICOM-converting tools are not available. In this paper, we describe our approach to develop a Web-based teaching file authoring tool. Our server is built using Apache Web server running on FreeBSD operating system. The dynamic page content is produced by Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine images are converted by ImageMagick into Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine attributes are parsed by dicom3tools and stored in PostgreSQL database. Using free software available from the Internet, we build a Web service that allows radiologists to create their own online teaching file cases with a common Web browser.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wen-Jeng
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chung-Yi
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Kao-Lang
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hon-Man
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yu-Tai
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Ching
authors.forename: Shyh-Jye
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D017150:Public Sector; D012984:Software; D013663:Teaching; D014584:User-Computer Interface