Activities of DICOM WG of MISAT in Taiwan

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Activities of DICOM WG of MISAT in Taiwan
DICOM Standards Committee

• Yuh-Show Tsai, Ph.D.
• Medical Information Standards Association of
  Taiwan (MISAT)
• Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
• Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

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Routine Activity

• DICOM workshops on 10/03/2003 , 11/09/2003,
  5/1/2004
• DICOM conference and Annual Meeting on 5/1/2004

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DICOM Promotion

• Assist BSMI (Bureau of Standards, Metrology and
  Inspection ) to adapt DICOM standards into CNS
  (Taiwan National Standard).
• Joint activity with IHE-Taiwan WG, and HL-7
  Taiwan, Radiology and Dentistry Society for
  IHE-Taiwan year 2 Demonstration.
• Popularize the UTF-8 Chinese characters of DICOM
  standard.

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DICOM Promotion

• DICOM Training Guide
• Introduction of DICOM and application examples
• Lecture Notes collected from local DICOM
  conference and Workshop

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Inter-Hospital Medical Image Transferring and
Exchange Guideline

• Northern Taiwan
• Veterans General Hospital (TCC)
• Shin-Kwan Memorial Hospital (EBM)

• Middle Taiwan
• VGH-Taichung(TCC)
• ChangHwa Christian Hospital (GE)
• Chung Shan Medical U. Hospital ( Philips)

• Souther Taiwan
• Shinlou Hospital(Infinitt)
• VGH-Kaoshiung(TCC)
• ChihMei Hospital(GE)
• Kaoshiung Medical U. Hospital(EBM)

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Minimal Requirement for Tags for DICOM DIR
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Minimal Requirement for Tags for DICOM Display
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Test with different DICOM viewers
PiView RWCDV DICOMate Osiris DICOMEye
DICOM DIR Access Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal
Tags Access Normal Normal Normal Error with Chinese Characters Error with Chinese Characters
Image Display Normal Normal Normal Several Crack Images Normal
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Guidelines of Delivering Images with HL7 Message

• Images Encapsulated with CDA
• Images Encapsulated without CDA
• By Using Reference Pointer

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More to Come

• Mechanism of Digital Signature and Encryption for
  DICOM Object Security Profile
• PKI for Secure Inter-Hospital Information
  Exchange
• Workshop/Seminar on PACS Image QC, Compression,
  etc.

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