DICOM CD 데이터 검증 툴킷 개발

Abstract

Since Korean government decided to reimburse for filmless full-PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) installation, a number of PACS installations had been rapidly increased. Currently, the number of large (> 500 beds) and small (< 500 beds) hospitals installing full-PACS are over 50 and 110, respectively. In case of patients who wewe referred to other hospitals, their image data which was the set of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) studies was transferred to referred hospitals. The DICOM studies were exported by available portable storage media such as a CD (Compact Disk). The DICOM images were imported from CD-ROM and stored to new PACS sever. In Yonsei University Medical Center, the number of referred patients is over 3,500 a day. Hospital’PACS operators are trying to import the DICOM files to the server about 50 times a day and the number of the tasks is gradually increasing. However, many problems were occurred when the DICOM images were imported. For instance, some images could not be imported from the DICOM CD data. Although they were successfully imported, some of them were not able to display. After anayzing various CD Data from many hospital and PACS vendors, DICOM validation toolkit was developed to improve the compatibility between the DICOM CD data and PACS. The joint project was aiming at developing “DICOM CD validation toolkit”. This study reported the procedure which was to make “DICOM CD Recommended Data Guideline Document”and the result that we validated the DICOM data sets using the DICOM CD validation toolkit.