Élément du module N° 8 : Instrumentation médicale II

Partie III : DICOM communication

Lhoucine BEN YOUSSEF, Ingénieur Biomédical et doctorant

benyousseflhoucine@gmail.com
 What is DICOM?

• Abbreviation of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.

• Communication protocol for medical imaging device.

Why DICOM is necessary?

• Before DICOM was enacted, each manufacturer and facility exchanged data
on their own methods.
– Development of own standard is necessary and it costs much.
– It is difficult to connect an equipment of other manufacturers.

• Having difficulty in replacing equipments and expanding system.

• DICOM Standard was enacted as a standard protocol.

– Making the connection between the equipments that support DICOM easy.
What is DICOM?
What is DICOM?
 What is defined?

• Image format
- Image element
- Data element
• Communication
- Communication procedure
- Communication method
• Storage
- Storage format (Compressed, not compressed)
 What is defined?

Image and Data element

• Image is a group of pixels.

• Data element and various information regarding the image.

- Patient information (Patient ID, Patient Name, Sex, Date of Birth, etc.)
- Study information (Study Date, Body part, Accession No., etc.)
- Image information (Image Size, Image Creation Date, Image UID, etc.)
etc.

• Image and data element are controlled together.

 What is defined?

Study information and series information

• DICOM data consists of four-layer information:

– Patient information
– Study information
– Series information
– Image data.

• Combination of information is as follows.

– A patient can take more than one study.
– A study can take more than one series information.
– A series can take more than one image.
 DICOM Setting (General)

Host Name
IP Address
AE Name
SCU Setting Port Number
Service Class Role: SCU

Console Host Name

SCP Setting IP Address
AE Name
Port Number
Service Class Role: SCP

SCP, SCU
• Abbreviation of Service Class Provider (a role that provides service)
• Abbreviation of Service Class User (a role that uses service)
 DICOM Setting (General)

Service Class (Examples)

• STORAGE
– It allows one DICOM AE to send images,waveforms, reports, etc., to another.
• PRINT MANAGEMENT
– It allows one DICOM AE to print images and image related data on a hard copy media.

SCU SCP

PRINT
Console Printer

STORAGE
Console PACS