Design and Implementation of Standard DICOM Interface Module

Abstract

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) which is standard of PACS(Picture Archiving Communication System) is set up as draft international standard for the purpose of collection and exchange the data and image among main medical display equipments. Medical display equipments is normally utilized as connected feature with surgery monitoring devices like endoscope, X-lay camera. However, most of medical surgery monitoring devices are not adaptable for DICOM, thus it is diffcult to connect data thru PACS. We suggest the connection methodology for PACS and medical surgery monitoring devices by implementation of HL7 interface which can share the medical information with DICOM. The standard DICOM interface module suggested in this thesis creates DICOM IOD (Information Object Definition) information class according to the checkup information received by HIS (Hospital Information System) and also creates standard DICOM format after blending with surgery monitoring data.