American society for echocardiography software suite for verification and playback of ultrasonic cine-mode images

Author

Claesen, S. ; Heart, G. ; Li, W. ; Bharath, A. ; Chandra, S. ; Kitney, R. ; Dewey, CF, Jr. ; Thomas, JD

Author_Institution

Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1995

fDate

10-13 Sept. 1995

Firstpage

581

Lastpage

583

Abstract

The imminent balloting of the draft DICOM 3.0 module on ultrasound represents a major step forward in the progress of digital storage formats for echocardiography. In this paper, we discuss a software suite soon to be released into the public domain for reading, parsing and verifying DICOM 3.0 ultrasonic objects. The software is designed to allow the user to verify, that a file consisting of digital ultrasound data claiming DICOM 3.0 conformance, does in fact adhere to the standard. A graphical user-interface for the software suite is also provided, allowing the playback of cine mode images in real-time on standard computer hardware, and across a TCP/IP network.

Keywords

echocardiography; graphical user interfaces; image colour analysis; medical image processing; random-access storage; software standards; transport protocols; American society for echocardiography; DICOM 3.0 conformance; TCP/IP network; digital storage formats; digital ultrasound data; draft DICOM 3.0 module; graphical user-interface; parsing; public domain; reading; real-time; software suite; standard; standard computer hardware; ultrasonic cine-mode images; verifying; Biomedical imaging; DICOM; Echocardiography; Educational institutions; Hardware; Image analysis; Image recognition; Image storage; Software standards; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1995

Conference_Location

Vienna, Austria

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3053-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1995.482731

Filename

482731