title: [Applications of tree-shaped structure in DICOM based on XML].
abstract: In order to improve the sharing of DICOM, a proposal is offered to introduce XML into DICOM on the SPIE 2005 and in this way, better readability and expansibility of DICOM files have been achieved. On this basis, the DICOM data structure is improved further by replacing the one-dimension linear data structure with multilayer tree-shaped data structure. And thus the nesting and dependence relationships between information object and data elements are much clearer and it is more convenient and easy to browse DICOM image files.
authors.affiliation: Rui Jin Hospital Affiliated to Medical College, Shanghai Jiaotong University.
authors.forename: Zhi-Hong
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Min-Hui
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011381:Programming Languages; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface