AbstractID: 7897 Title: DICOM Enhancements: Current and Future
The development of the DICOM Standard is done through Working Groups of the DICOM Standards Committee. The Working
Groups perform the majority of work on the extension of and corrections to the Standard. The ACR Committee on DICOM
Standards, under the Commission on Medical Physics, has been established to provide a summary of the current activities and future
directions of the DICOM Standards Committee. The extensions are made through development of Supplements and corrections are
done through the Change Proposal (CP) mechanism. In this presentation the procedures used to create the Standard will be reviewed
and some of the most recent changes discussed.
Enhancements recently incorporated into the standard that have significance to medical physicists will be reviewed. These include:
WG04 (Compression) - JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol
WG21 (CT) – Enhanced CT Image Storage SOP Class, CT Radiation Dose Reporting
WG16 (MR) - Multiframe MR Object
WG17 (3D) - Segmentation Storage SOP Class, Deformable Spatial Registration Storage SOP Class
New work items that have been approved that will lead to further enhancements in the near future are:
WG3 (NM) - Enhanced PET Image Storage SOP Class
WG17 (3D) - Surface Segmentation Storage SOP Class
WG15 (Digital Mammography) - Breast Tomosynthesis Image Storage SOP Class
WG7 (RT) – Enhanced RT Object
Objectives:
1. Understand how DICOM Working Groups develop enhancements to the Standard.
2. Learn the significance of enhancements recently incorporated into the Standard.
3. Review new work being done to improve the Standard.