Developing a DICOM Middleware to Implement ECG Conversion and Viewing

Nowadays, medical environment is integrated and complicated, involving large amounts of various medical data, such as images, waveforms and other digital data. For the interoperability of images and waveforms in imaging context, the images and waveforms usually need to be interchanged and stored using one standard. DICOM is the best choice, which is an international standard for the communication and storage of medical information. In this paper, we developed a DICOM middleware with capability of converting SCP-ECG, the European standard for resting ECGs, into DICOM ECGs. Then an ECG viewing component is implemented, which can parse and display SCP-ECG records and DICOM ECGs. The research results show that our work can realize seamless workflows in multi-vendor environment, contribute to the harmonization of ECG standards, and facilitate digital ECG applications