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Medical images are created, stored, accessed, and processed in the restricted environment of a hospital. The semantic of a medical image is driven by the particular purpose for creating it. This results in specific solutions for the archiving of medical images. Transfer is different for medical images as well as it is driven by the technical specification of the various image acquisition systems and the particular requirements of the users of these images.
The archiving and transfer of images is governed by two standards (HL7 and DICOM) that will be discussed in this chapter. The goal of the presentation is to enable the reader to understand the way images are stored and distributed in a hospital. It should further enable the reader to access images if some analysis method shall be applied to it and to decide how to implement such an analysis method in a clinical environment.
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Toennies, K.D. (2012). Image Storage and Transfer. In: Guide to Medical Image Analysis. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2751-2_3
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