Object-oriented implementation of a DICOM network client in Smalltalk

Author

Krechel, Dirk ; Faber, Kerstin ; Von Wangenheim, Aldo ; Sampario, Silvio Costa

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Inf., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Most of the digital medical devices used in modern clinics and practice provide data corresponding to the DICOM Standard. Cyclops, a knowledge-based image analysis system developed at the University of Kaiserslautern, was suitable to analyze such images, but we needed a DICOM interface to connect to DICOM databases easily and transfer data to the system. All non-commercial software available were not up to our demands, so we implemented a DICOM network client by our own, which can connect to the ctn image server, based on an SQL database. We attached great value to a neat, object-oriented implementation, because it is easy to expand and we are flexible to future versions of the DICOR/I standard

Keywords

knowledge based systems; medical information systems; object-oriented programming; Cyclops; DICOM databases; DICOM network client; SQL database; Smalltalk; digital medical devices; image server; knowledge-based image analysis system; object-oriented implementation; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Computer science; DICOM; Image analysis; Image databases; Intelligent networks; Knowledge based systems; Object oriented modeling; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 12th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Stamford, CT

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0234-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1999.781241

Filename

781241