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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

Development of DICOS:

Data Format and Transmission Standard for Security Screening

NEMA - The Association of Electrical and

Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

Defense Daily Open Architecture Summit

November 18, 2010

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

What is NEMA?

Founded in 1926

≈ 450 member companies in 55 sections (product categories) that manufacture products used in the generation, transmission and distribution, control, and end-use of electricity.

Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of

NEMA, developed & maintains DICOM

 a global information technology standard—used in virtually all hospitals worldwide

 ensures interoperability of systems that produce, store, display, process, send, and retrieve medical images and manage related workflow.

ANSI-accredited Standards Developer

Manages 500 standards; about half are ANSI standards

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

NEMA Objective

Maintain and extend DICOS airport security implementations, enabling scanning equipment interoperability

Ensure that DICOS capabilities extend to cargo screening and border protection activities to further the DHS/TSA mission

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

Security Equipment Communication

DICOS enables sharing data among different vendors’ equipment. Data includes:

 Images and metadata

 Results of Automated Threat Detection (ATD) algorithms

 Operator/TSO decisions

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

Equipment Interoperability

With interoperability, screening equipment could produce, store, display, process, send, and retrieve information — without regard to manufacturer

Use different Automated Target Recognition

(ATR) / Automated Threat Detection (ATD) algorithms as needed

DICOS specifically addresses the interoperability challenge

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

NEMA Members

Member Manufacturers

 Analogic Corp.

 Applied Visual Sciences

 AS&E

 Aware Inc.

 Brijot Imaging

 DatCard Systems

 General Dynamics

 L-3 Communications

 Optosecurity Inc.

 Rapiscan Systems

 Reveal Imaging

 Safran/Morpho Detection

 Siemens Corp.

 Smiths Detection

 SureScan Corp.

 TeleSecurity Sciences

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NEMA DICOS Contributors

 Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory

 Battelle Memorial Institute

 U.S. Navy SPAWAR

Systems Center, Pacific

 Sandia National

Laboratories

 U.S. National Institute of

Standards and Technology

(NIST)

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

DICOS Project Development

NEMA has standards development expertise, member technical expertise, and DICOM experience

A standards project is born

 At the request of DHS, DICOM (medical) was adapted into

DICOS (security)

 DICOM provided a sound technical basis for DICOS development

 Many existing DICOM services and data infrastructure were inherited and leveraged without change

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

DICOM versus DICOS

DICOM

Patient

Subject of Exam =

Patient Only

About 3 patients per hour/CT device, depending on complexity of exam, with scans ≈ 8 bags

DICOS

Passenger

Subject of Exam =

Passenger + checked bags + carry-on

1,000 bags per hour/CT device

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

DICOS Project Status – Phase 1 Complete

Published NEMA IIC 1 v01 (DICOS v01)

August 2010

DICOS overview, including roots in DICOM

Addresses data representation for CT, DX,

TDR

Security scan site agnostic

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

NEMA Role – How We Work

DICOM experience

Facilitate member discussion & decision

 Teleconferences – Working Groups

• Meeting times determined by the WG

 Full Section and Technical Committee

• Face-to-face Meetings and teleconferences

Monthly Status Update to DHS compiled/ distributed by NEMA

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

Challenges

Open standards development arena vs. security-sensitive / classified information

Extensibility

International Implementation

Speed vs Consensus

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

Additional Steps

Ensure DICOS is developed with extensibility in mind

 A standard that can be applied to any potential security scanning environment, including port cargo inspections, customs inspections, border patrol stations

 Include the ability to share images and data reports, to include possible “remote screening” applications

 Incorporate appropriate data encryption safeguards for shared data

 Extend DICOS to support software interoperability that will facilitate rapid update of threat detection algorithms

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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers

83 years of excellence

Additional Steps

Extend DICOS implementations to include border protection and cargo security applications

Integrate security checkpoints to create an

“electronic border” capable of seamlessly sharing all data, regardless of source

Formulate a plan to address unique DHS cargo security and border protection needs with DICOS

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Q & A

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