DICOM® — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is the international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use. (from https://www.dicomstandard.org/about-home)

Prefix

dicom

Keywords

ontology

Version

v2015-01-11

Links

Homepage OWL

Publications

2013 Multi-series DICOM: an extension of DICOM that stores a whole study in a single object

2005 DICOM demystified: a review of digital file formats and their use in radiological practice

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

109082   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine ontology should match this regular expression:
^dicom:\d+$

Example CURIE

dicom:109082

Format String for RDF URIs

http://dicom.nema.org/resources/ontology/DCM/$1

Example RDF URI

http://dicom.nema.org/resources/ontology/DCM/109082

Contacts

David Clunie   0000-0002-2406-1145   dclunie

Michael Brunnbauer   michaelbrunnbauer

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (2)

FHIR External Terminologies NFDI4BIOIMAGE Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 2 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 109082 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.