PS-2020a / part21

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Foreword​

This DICOM Standard was developed according to the procedures of the DICOM Standards Committee.​

The DICOM Standard is structured as a multi-part document using the guidelines established in [ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2].​

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1 Scope and Field of Application​

This Part of the DICOM Standard specifies the transformations between DICOM and other representations of the same information.​

Currently, this Part addresses:​

•​compatiblecomponentsoftheNCIAnnotationandImageMarkup(AIM)toandfromDICOMSRMeasurementTemplates,applicable​ to quantitative and categorical description of regions of interest in images​

Transformation of diagnostic imaging reports between DICOM SR and HL7 CDA representations is addressed in PS3.20.​

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2 Normative and Informative References​

The following standards contain provisions that, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Standard. At the time of​ publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this Standard​ are encouraged to investigate the possibilities of applying the most recent editions of the standards indicated below.​

[ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2] ISO/IEC. 2016/05. 7.0. Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards. http://www.iec.ch/​ members_experts/refdocs/iec/isoiecdir-2%7Bed7.0%7Den.pdf .​

[IEEE 754] IEEE. 1985. 32-bit and 64-bit Floating Point Number Representations.​

[ISO21090]ISO.2011.Healthinformatics--Harmonizeddatatypesforinformationinterchange. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/​ catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=35646 .​

[V3 DT R1] HL7. 2004. HL7 Version 3 Standard: XML Implementation Technology Specification - Wire Format Compatible Release​ 1 Data Types, Release 1. http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=357 .​

[XML] W3C. 2006/09/29. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/ .​

[XSD Datatypes] W3C. 2004/10/28. XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ .​

[AIM v3 v4 changes] NCI. 2014/04/10. Changes from AIM 3.0, Revision 11 to AIM Foundation - Summary of Changes Between AIM​ 3.0 and 4.0 Models. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/AIM/Changes+from+AIM+3.0%2C+Revision+11+to+AIM+Foundation#​ ChangesfromAIM3.0,Revision11toAIMFoundation-ISO21090DataTypes .​

[AIM Model v4.2] NCI. 2018/02. Annotation and Image Markup model version 4.2. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/AIM/Annotation+​ and+Image+Markup+-+AIM#AnnotationandImageMarkup-AIM-AIMModel .​

[Extending AIM] NCI. 2014/12/03. Extending the AIM Model. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/AIM/Extending+the+AIM+Model .​

[caBIG™ AIM] J Digit Imaging. Channin, David S, Mongkolwat, Pattanasak, Kleper, Vladimir, Sepukar, Kastubh, and Rubin, Daniel​ L. 2010/04. 23. 2. 217–225. “The caBIG™ Annotation and Image Markup Project”. 10.1007/s10278-009-9193-9. http://​ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837161/ .​

[AIM Template Builder] Radiographics. Mongkolwat, Pattanasak, Channin, David S, Kleper, Vladimir, and Rubin, Daniel. 2012/07.​ 32. 4. 1223–1232. “An Open-Source and Open-Access Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid Annotation and Image Markup​ Template Builder”. 10.1148/rg.324115080. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393884/ .​

[AIM Foundation Model] J Digit Imaging. Mongkolwat, Pattanasak, Kleper, Vladimir, Talbot, Skip, and Rubin, Daniel. 2014/12. 27. 6.​ 692–701. “The National Cancer Informatics Program (NCIP) Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) Foundation Model”.​ 10.1007/s10278-014-9710-3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391072/ .​

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3 Definitions​

For the purposes of this Standard the following definitions apply.​

3.1 Codes and Controlled Terminology Definitions:​

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.16:​

3.2 DICOM Introduction and Overview Definitions:​

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.1:​

3.3 DICOM Service Class Definitions:​

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.4:​

Service-Object Pair Instance​ Service-Object Pair Instance (SOP Instance).​

(SOP Instance)​

3.4 DICOM Information Object Definitions:​

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.3:​

3.5 DICOM Data Structures and Encoding​

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.5:​

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