Library development for a DICOM-information model

The increasing amount of information in diagnostic imaging demands more efficient software tools. The picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) offers solutions to adequately manage large quantities of diagnostic information. Based on the specifications of a digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) 3.0 information model, we have developed a preliminary software representation. We have applied the unified software development process. This process has established phases and workflows to obtain quality characteristics, like completeness, extensibility, reusability and reliability. Also, the unified modeling language was used to represent the results. Three workflows were used to produce an architecture of the library. Our model satisfies the DICOM information model specifications.