Information object definition-based unified modeling language representation of DICOM structured reporting: a case study of transcoding DICOM to XML.
Supplement 23 to DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications for Medicine), Structured Reporting, is a specification that supports a semantically rich representation of image and waveform content, enabling experts to share image and related patient information. DICOM SR supports the representation of textual and coded data linked to images and waveforms. Nevertheless, the medical information technology community needs models that work as bridges between the DICOM relational model and open object-oriented [...]
Author(s): Tirado-Ramos, Alfredo, Hu, Jingkun, Lee, K P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2002.0090063