DICOM Structured Reporting by Dr. David A. Clunie. ISBN 0-9701369-0-0. 394 pages softcover. RRP $59.95. Out of print - may be download from link below.

A comprehensive review of the features and implementation of the new DICOM Structured Reporting extension to the DICOM Standard.

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the ubiquitous standard in the radiology and cardiology imaging industry for the exchange and management of images and image related information. DICOM is also used in other image related medical fields, such as pathology, endoscopy, dentistry, ophthalmology and dermatology.

DICOM is now venturing into territory where other standards have feared to tread, into the area of structured documents. In particular, it is within the scope of DICOM to develop standards for documents that incorporate references to images and associated data such as waveforms. The recently released DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) supplement does just that. This book endeavours to explain the principles behind DICOM SR, including how to create, encode and render structured reports. It includes basic material to help understand the DICOM standard itself, since Structured Reporting will be of relevance to many who are not already familiar with DICOM. Extensive examples of potential applications are provided, together with details of their encoding, to augment the somewhat sterile and concise descriptions in the standard itself.

About the author:David Clunie is industry co-chairman of the DICOM Committee, editor of the standard, as well as a member or chairman of several of the DICOM working groups, including digital x-ray, compression, interchange media, base standard, display, mammography and clinical trials. He has recently joined ComView Corporation as Director of Development, Medical Imaging Products. Formerly he was Director of Medical Imaging Technology at Quintiles Intelligent Imaging and before that, Lead Designer for DICOM Standardization at GE Medical Systems.

Born in Scotland but raised and educated in Australia, in a previous life he was a neuro-radiologist, but decided to forsake the rewards of medical practice for the excitement of developing communications technology standards. Having travelled and worked in Australia, the Middle East and the US, he and his wife Eleanor now live in rural eastern Pennsylvania, both telecommuting as much as possible, and occasionally venturing into New York City in search of excitement or supplies.

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