Review of Dicompass DICOM Camera App for Android

Abstract

Pros Configurable settings provide the flexibility to support various clinical photography workflows and integrations across different organizations and specialties. Cons Only available for Android devices At a Glance Android camera app, offering clinicians an intuitive method to associate patient and anatomical information to clinical photographs utilizing DICOM.

HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community White Papers: Reflections and Future Directions

“…Photo image capture was the primary example used to explain the need for supporting imaging performed during a clinic visit without prior indication, such as occurring in dermatology, wound care, and emergency medicine. Solutions for capturing, indexing, and storing images following an encounters-based imaging workflow were limited and incomplete [ 47 , 48 ].…”

Transforming Dermatologic Imaging for the Digital Era: Metadata and Standards

“…Photographic images that have been acquired in consumer formats can be encapsulated as a DICOM VL Photographic object by way of import software that associates metadata with the image (e.g., the JPEG compressed pixel data) and Bwraps^them together in a DICOM format, without loss of image fidelity [17]. There is an increasing number of cameras, mobile device applications, and dermatoscopes that can natively acquire images in DICOM formats [46]. DICOM currently contains IODs for HFUS and OCT.…”