DICOMweb™: Background and Application of the Web Standard for Medical Imaging
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This paper describes why and how DICOM, the standard that has been the basis for medical imaging interoperability around the world for several decades, has been extended into a full web technology-based standard, DICOMweb. At the turn of the century, healthcare embraced information technology, which created new problems and new opportunities for the medical imaging industry; at the same time, web technologies matured and began serving other domains well. This paper describes DICOMweb, how it extended the DICOM standard, and how DICOMweb can be applied to problems facing healthcare applications to address workflow and the changing healthcare climate.
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- Authors
- Genereaux, B. W., Dennison, D. K., Ho, K., Horn, R., Silver, E. L., O’Donnell, K., & Kahn, C. E.
- Affiliations
- Agfa HealthCare (BE)
- Canon (United States) (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Genereaux, Brad W.
- Venue
- Journal of Digital Imaging
- Published
- 2018-05-10
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 321-326
- ISSN
- 0897-1889 (ISSN-L)
- 1618-727X
- PMC
- PMC5959831
- OpenAlex
- W2802728270
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 5.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Radiological Society of North America
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiology practices and education
- Keywords
- DICOM, web standards, health information technology
- MeSH terms
- Computer Communication Networks, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Radiology Information Systems, Workflow
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