DICOM — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is the international standard for medical images and related information (ISO 12052). It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use. DICOM is implemented in almost every radiology, cardiology imaging, and radiotherapy device (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc.), and increasingly in devices in other medical domains such as ophthalmology and dentistry. With tens of thousands of imaging devices in use, DICOM is one of the most widely deployed healthcare messaging standards in the world. There are literally billions of DICOM images currently in use for clinical care. Since its first publication in 1993, DICOM has revolutionized the practice of radiology, allowing the replacement of X-ray film with a fully digital workflow. Much as the Internet has become the platform for new consumer information applications, DICOM has enabled advanced medical imaging applications that have “changed the face of clinical medicine”. From the emergency department, to cardiac stress testing, to breast cancer detection, DICOM is the standard that makes medical imaging work — for doctors and for patients.

Prefix

dicom

Keywords

anatomy biomedical science medicine ontology

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 identifiers in Healthcare metadata - DICOM ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

109082   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Healthcare metadata - DICOM ontology should match this regular expression:
^dicom:\d+$

Example CURIE

dicom:109082

Contact

David Clunie   0000-0002-2406-1145

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

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies NFDI4BIOIMAGE Collection

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 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 Healthcare metadata - DICOM 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.