Establishing a web-based DICOM teaching file authoring tool using open-source public software
Journal
Journal of Digital Imaging
Journal Volume
18
Journal Issue
3
Pages
169-175
Date Issued
2005
Author(s)
Abstract
Online teaching files are an important source of educational and referential materials in the radiology community. The commonly used Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) file format of the radiology community is not natively supported by common Web browsers. The ability of the Web server to convert and parse DICOM is important when the DICOM-converting tools are not available. In this paper, we describe our approach to develop a Web-based teaching file authoring tool. Our server is built using Apache Web server running on FreeBSD operating system. The dynamic page content is produced by Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine images are converted by ImageMagick into Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine attributes are parsed by dicom3tools and stored in PostgreSQL database. Using free software available from the Internet, we build a Web service that allows radiologists to create their own online teaching file cases with a common Web browser. Copyright ? 2005 by SCAR (Society for Computer Applications in Radiology).
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Other Subjects
Digital communication systems; HTML; Imaging techniques; Online systems; Radiology; Servers; Teaching; World Wide Web; Hypertext perprocessor (PHP); Teaching files; Web-based; Computer aided software engineering; article; computer program; diagnostic imaging; digital computer; Internet; medicine; molecular dynamics; online system; priority journal; radiologist; Computer Communication Networks; Computer-Assisted Instruction; Computers; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Public Sector; Software; Teaching; User-Computer Interface
Type
journal article