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David Clunie's Medical Image Format Site

Maintained by David A. Clunie dclunie@dclunie.com.

• Blogs and Networking Sites
  • Blog
  • LinkedIn Profile
  
  
• alt.image.medical FAQ
  • Sources of DICOM Information
  
  
• Stuff
  • Medical Imaging Radiation Dose Informatics web site and discussion group
  • PixelMed™ DoseUtility™ tool for extracting dose information from RDSRs and OCR of dose screens
  • PixelMed™ DicomCleaner™ tool for de-identifying DICOM images
  • PACS History web site
  • Patient Contributed Image Repository (PCIR) test site
  • Imaging Procedure Content Mapping Resource (IPCMR) site
  
  
• DICOM Stuff
  • DICOM Standard Status
  • dicom3tools dciodvfy and dcentvfy DICOM validators
  • dicom3tools software
  • Pixelmed Java DICOM toolkit, including the DicomCleaner tool for de-identifying and blacking out images
  • NEMA CT and MR Multiframe sample images and spectra, test tool and validator
  • DICOM aware patches to tcpdump for poor person's DICOM sniffer
  
  
• Books
  • DICOM Structured Reporting
  
  
• Slides
  • Pathology + DICOM: A Picture-Perfect Pairing (SIIM Webinar 2024)
  • Medical Image Integrity Issues - International Data Security and Thoracic Screening (IELCAP AGILE 2024)
  • Pathways To The Future - Navigating The Next Evolution Of DICOM In Enterprise Imaging (SIIM Webinar 2024)
  • DICOM in Pathology as a Standard (NCI Workshop on DPI in Cancer Clinical Trials and Research 2024)
  • DICOM for Digital Pathology - Current Landscape (FDA 2024)
  • DICOM: Testament of Time (ESMRMB: MRI Together Workshop 2021) (Recording)
  • DICOM Standardization of WSI Data (FDA 2020)
  • Technical Challenges in Enterprise Imaging (RSNA 2019)
  • DICOM Result Reporting - Structured Reports, AI, JSON (DICOM Conference 2019)
  • DICOM Enterprise Imaging & Whole Slide Imaging (DICOM Conference 2019)
  • DICOM for Small Animal Pre-clinical Imaging & Whole Slide Digital Pathology (CIRP 2019)
  • How Best to Create, Standardize, and Promote Data Models for Dermatology in the Mobile Era? (Dermatology Informatics, MSKCC 2018)
  • Digital Pathology - Whole Slide Imaging (DICOM Conference 2018)
  • DICOM Structured Reports (DICOM Conference 2018)
  • Standardizing AI Annotations - The DICOM Way (SIIM CMIMI 2018)
  • DICOM Standard Approach: Whole Slide Imaging Deployment (ECDP/NDP 2018)
  • DICOM, the Enterprise, and Digital Pathology (ECDP/NDP Preconference Workshop 2018)
  • Technical Challenges in Enterprise Imaging (RSNA 2017)
  • DICOM - Dermatology (ISIC WG 2017)
  • DICOM - Impact on Whole Slide Imaging in Pathology (Pathology Visions 2017)
  • DICOM: Overview and historical perspective. Tutorial on 21st Century DICOM for Quantitative Imaging Research: Why, What, and How. (MICCAI 2017)
  • Deploying a VNA with Integration of Multiple Clinical Specialties - DICOM Beyond Radiology (SIIM 2017)
  • DICOM Whole Slide Imaging - Acquire, Archive, View, Annotate, Download and Transmit (PI/HIMA 2017)
  • Standardization of (Imaging) Data Formats - Lessons Learned (PBDW 2017)
  • Knowledge Representation of Prostatic Sector Anatomy from PI-RADS in Standard Lexicons (RSNA 2016)
  • Standards for Image Exchange (MIIT 2016)
  • ASCO Oncology Standards/Interoperability Summit - Panel 2 - Making systems more open - Imaging, Radiology Reporting, DICOM
  • A Practical Introduction to Structured Reporting Tools and Resources - DICOM Structured Reports (SR) (RSNA 2015)
  • Best and Worst Practices and Software Development Tools - DICOM (DICOMWeb Conference 2015)
  • Towards a Global Imaging Procedure Code Mapping Resource (IPCMR) (SIIM 2015)
  • Standards and the Technology for Image Exchange (ACR 2015)
  • DICOM Encoding of Dose Information: Standards, Tools and Practicalities (JSRT 2015)
  • Informatics Standards for Quantitative Imaging (RSNA 2014)
  • Not Your Grandfather's PACS - New Expectations for Image Management (SEAAPM Symposium 2014-05-01)
  • Image Sharing Use Cases and Standards (ONC HIT Standards Committee Clinical Operations Workgroup 2013-08-29)
  • Radiation Dose Structured Reports (AAPM 2013)
  • IHE Invoke Image Display (IID) Profile (IHE 2013 Webinars)
  • IHE Basic Image Review (BIR) Profile (IHE 2013 Webinars)
  • Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and the Informatics Infra-Structure Standards and Interoperability (SIIM 2013 Satellite Forum)
  • DICOM & IHE Standards for Medical Color Imaging (FDA/ICC Summit on Color in Medical Imaging 2013)
  • DICOM For Research and Clinical Quantitative Imaging (SPIE MI 2013)
  • Result Review System for Clinical, Research and Clinical Trial Imaging Poster Slides (RSNA 2012)
  • Lossless Compression of Breast Tomosynthesis Objects (RSNA 2012)
  • Standards and PACS Data Ownership (RCR Spring 2012 UK Imaging Informatics Group)
  • Automated Recording of Radiation Dose from Modalities (RCR Spring 2012 UK Imaging Informatics Group)
  • CT Radiation Dose Information - What to Capture and How (L'informazione di dose integrata nei PACS, Pisa 2011)
  • Sharing Images on CD, DVD & USB: Standards, Tools & IHE PDI, IRWF and BIR Profiles (RSNA 2010)
  • Extracting, Managing and Rendering DICOM Radiation Dose Information from Legacy & Contemporary CT Modalities (DICOM Conference 2010)
  • De-identification Revisited - DICOM Supplement 142 (DICOM Conference 2010)
  • Tools for DICOM Implementation (DICOM Conference 2010)
  • Top Ten PACS Problems - #10 (SIIM 2010)
  • DICOM for Pathology - Lessons Learned in Radiology - How do they Translate to Digital Imaging Issues in Pathology? (APIII 2009)
  • IHE Mammography Acquisition Workflow (SIIM 2009)
  • DICOM Support for Compression: More than JPEG (MIIT 2009)
  • DICOM Research Applications - life at the fringe of reality (SPIE MI 2009)
  • Algorithm Validation Toolkit (AVT) (RSNA 2008)
  • Imaging Informatics Updates - DICOM (RSNA Refresher Course 2008)
  • IHE Portable Data for Imaging - PDI (RSNA 2008)
  • Digital Breast Imaging Informatics Considerations for PACS Administrators (SIIM University 2008)
  • Image Compression: JPEG2000 and 3D (RSNA Refresher Course 2007)
  • DICOM Update (SIIM 2007)
  • New Modality Issues: DICOM Enhanced Images - CT, MR, PET, XA/XRF (RSNA Refresher Course 2005, 2006)
  • Impact of New DICOM Objects on Handling Large Data Sets (PACS 2006)
  • Open Source Software - Is it a Viable Alternative for a Healthcare Institution? (PACS 2006)
  • Enhanced DICOM MR for spectroscopy, structural and functional imaging (ISMRM Spectroscopy Workshop 2006)
  • DICOM, PACS and Veterinary Radiology (ACVR 2005)
  • DICOM Implementations for Digital Radiography (RSNA Refresher Course 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
  • Digital Mammography: Interoperability, Transfer Between Enterprises, Archival, Compression and Disaster Recovery (SCAR 2005 EWBC Breast Forum)
  • DICOM Display Update: Color Presentation States and Hanging Protocols (NEMA Seminar SPIE MI 2005)
  • PACS: Then and Now (... and Tomorrow) (Cerner Health Conference Oct 2004)
  • DICOM as a format for neuro-imaging with fMRI (Data Format Working, Rockville, Sep 2004)
  • New Enhanced Multi-frame DICOM CT and MR Objects to Enhance Performance and Image Processing on PACS and Workstations (SCAR 2004 Hot Topics)
  • Extension of an Open Source DICOM Toolkit to Support SCP-ECG Waveforms (2nd OpenECG Workshop - Berlin April 2004)
  • DICOM, Workstations and PACS (NEMA Seminar SPIE MI 2004)
  • Implementation Experience: Objects, Test Tool and Validation (SPIE MI Workshop on Enhanced MR Object 2003)
  • DICOM Media Management (DICOM Anniversary Conference, Baltimore 2003)
  • DICOM Compression 2002 (NEMA Seminar SPIE MI 2002)
  • Frontiers in PACS: DICOM Structured Reporting (AAPM 2001)
  • DICOM Structured Reporting: Implementation Experience (NEMA SR Implementers Workshop 2001)
  • What's new in DICOM in 2001 ? (NEMA Seminar SPIE MI 2001)
  • DICOM structured reporting: an object model as an implementation boumdary (SPIE MI 2001)
  • Structured Reporting - More Complex Examples (NEMA SR Workshop 2000)
  • DICOM SR Tools (NEMA SR Workshop 2000)
  • SR Object Model (SR-OM) - Towards an API for toolkits (NEMA SR Workshop 2000)
  • DICOM SR Meets XML - beyond the hype ... (NEMA SR Workshop 2000)
  • DICOM softcopy presentation state storage and print presentation LUT (NEMA Seminar SPIE MI 2000)
  • Designing and implementing a PACS-aware DICOM object for digital X-ray, mammo and intraoral applications (SPIE MI 1999)
  
  
• Articles (see also CV)
  • Summary of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Virtual Workshop on Medical Image De-identification - Part 1: Report of the MIDI Task Group - Best Practices and Recommendations, Tools for Conventional Approaches to De-identification, International Approaches to De-identification, and Industry Panel on Image De-identification. 2024
  • Summary of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Virtual Workshop on Medical Image De-identification - Part 2: Pathology Whole Slide Image De-identification, De-facing, the Role of AI in Image De-identification, and the NCI MIDI Datasets and Pipeline. 2024
  • DICOM Format and Protocol Standardization - A Core Requirement for Digital Pathology Success. Toxicologic Pathology. 2020
  • Dual-Personality DICOM-TIFF for whole slide images: A migration technique for legacy software. JPI. 2019
  • Implementing the DICOM standard for digital pathology. JPI. 2018
  • DICOM Whole Slide Imaging Connectathon at Digital Pathology Association Pathology Visions 2017. JPI. 2018
  • Transforming Dermatologic Imaging for the Digital Era: Metadata and Standards. Journal of Digital Imaging. 2018 (Cafferty et al)
  • dcmqi: An Open Source Library for Standardized Communication of Quantitative Image Analysis Results Using DICOM. Cancer Res. 2017 (Herz et al)
  • Technical Challenges of Enterprise Imaging: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper. Journal of Digital Imaging. 2016
  • DICOM for quantitative imaging biomarker development: A standards based approach to sharing of clinical data and structured PET/CT analysis results in head and neck cancer research. PeerJ. (Fedorov et al)
  • A Digital Reference Object to Analyze Calculation Accuracy of PET Standardized Uptake Value (Pierce et al, Radiology 2015)
  • Block selective redaction for minimizing loss during de-identification of burned in text in irreversibly compressed JPEG medical images (JMI article)
  • Editorial to RANZCR Body Systems Framework of Diagnostic Imaging Examination Descriptors (JMIRO article)
  • Breast tomosynthesis challenges digital imaging infrastructure (Aunt Minnie column)
  • ACR-AAPM-SIIM Technical Standard for Electronic Practice of Medical Imaging (JDI 2012) (PubMed)
  • Image data sharing for biomedical research--meeting HIPAA requirements for De-identification (Freymann et al, JDI 2012) (PubMed)
  • Consistency of Lesion Size in Digital Mammography - Letter (AJR 2010) (PubMed)
  • Standardizing file formats, security, and integration of digital chest image files for pneumoconiosis classification (NIOSH Scientific Workshop - Application of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses to Digital Chest Radiographic Images. 2008)
  • DICOM Structured Reporting and Cancer Clinical Trials Results (Cancer Informatics 2007) (PubMed Central version) (PubMed)
  • The New Enhanced Multiframe CT and MR DICOM Objects (SCAR 2005)
  • DICOM Implementations for Digital Radiography (RSNA Refresher Course 2003)
  • DICOM structured reporting: an object model as an implementation boundary (SPIE MI 2001)
  • Lossless compression of grayscale medical images - effectiveness of traditional and state of the art approaches (SPIE MI 2000)
  • JPEG 2000 Compression of Medical Imagery (by Foos et al, SPIE MI 2000)
  • Designing and implementing a PACS-aware DICOM object for digital X-ray, mammo and intraoral applications (SPIE MI 1999)
  • Progress in Extending DICOM to Media Interchange (SPIE MI 1997)
  • Survey of DICOM Conformance Statements (S/CAR 1996)
  
  
• Other Documents, Reports and White Papers
  • Report of the Medical Image De-Identification (MIDI) Task Group -- Best Practices and Recommendations. 2023
  • DICOM SR for communicating planar annotations - An Imaging Data Commons (IDC) White Paper. 2021
  • Code Mapping in IHE Radiology Profiles (2014/03/07)
  • Applying Segmentations (2013/12/10)
  • Requirements for support of DICOM segmentation objects in an extension to ClearCanvas Workstation (2013/12/10)
  • On the matter of size and distance measurements in digital mammography (2007/03/18)
  
  
• Images
  • UPMC Breast Tomography and FFDM Collection
  • Display shutters in fluoroscopy image test case
  • Full field digital mammography (FFDM) sample images and CAD objects and IHE Mammo Profile test cases, now in MESA tests
  • Full field digital mammography (FFDM) images and CAD objects for SBI 2007 Demonstration and scenario scripts
  • DICOM images to test use of correct pixel spacing attributes for distance measurement and true-size printing and what the display might look like
  • Internationalized character set test DICOM images and what the names should look like
  • Deflate transfer syntax test DICOM images
  • Signed range test DICOM images
  • JPEG, JPEG-LS and JPEG 2000 compressed transfer syntax test DICOM images at NEMA
  • Enhanced CT and MR Multi-frame test DICOM images at NEMA
  • SMPTE pattern (generated by dcsmpte)
  • Briggs BPT#4(7,.7,256) pattern (generated by dcbriggs)
  
  
• Compression Stuff
  • Tools and libraries for performing JPEG-LS compression
  • Stanford PVRG JPEG Patches for GE DICOM MOD
  • Mirror of Cornell lossless JPEG code
  • Mirror of Brown (Elion) DISC95 DICOM lossless JPEG code
  
  
• Other Software Stuff
  • Various pbm, xv and ijg JPEG 16 bit extensions
  • Photo CD extensions for Bradley's XV software
  • Sherlock Plugin to search Google Groups for Usenet news postings
  
  
• Personal Stuff
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Resume
  • Eleanor's site
  • Flying stuff
  
  

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