| Working Group |
Title |
Scope |
| WG 1 |
Cardiac and Vascular Information |
To develop standards for the digital interchange of the cardiovascular images, physiologic waveforms and core clinical information, which characterize a patient undergoing a catheterization procedure. |
| WG 2 |
Projection Radiography and Angiography |
To develop and maintain the XA-, XRF-, DX-, CR-specific objects for the DICOM standard in the domain of general angiography, neuro-radiology, radio-fluoroscopy and technical quantitation reports and clinical information, which accompany a patient undergoing an interventional procedure or general X-ray procedure. |
| WG 3 |
Nuclear Medicine |
To develop standards for the digital interchange of nuclear medicine and PET images. |
| WG 4 |
Compression |
To provide data compression facilities for the DICOM standard and to advise on application or object-related definitions of data compression parts of the DICOM Standard created by other working groups. |
| WG 5 |
Exchange Media |
To develop DICOM standards for interchange media. |
| WG 6 |
Base Standard |
WG-06 maintains the overall consistency of the DICOM standard. |
| WG 7 |
Radiotherapy |
To develop and maintain radiotherapy information objects for the DICOM Standard and promote their implementation and acceptance within the industry. |
| WG 8 |
Structured Reporting |
To develop and maintain the DICOM Structured Reporting specification and to collaborate with DICOM working groups and other standards development committees in the development of specialized reports and other documents based on the generic SR specification. |
| WG 9 |
Ophthalmology |
To address all issues relating to imaging and reporting of image-based studies in ophthalmic applications. |
| WG 10 |
Strategic Advisory |
To consider issues and opportunities related to the strategic evolution of DICOM; to provide liaison to other standards developing organizations; to review standards and technology in healthcare, biomedical imaging, commerce, telecommunications, and informatics; and to develop and maintain the long-term strategic plan of the DICOM Standards Committee. |
| WG 11 |
Display Function Standard |
To develop a display function standard and DICOM services related to image presentation objects. |
| WG 12 |
Ultrasound |
To develop extensions to DICOM that are specific to the needs of the ultrasound imaging community. This includes all aspects of ultrasound acquisition related workflow and generated data, such as single and multi-frame images, waveform data (Doppler audio, phonocardiogram, voice, etc.) and measurements. |
| WG 13 |
Visible Light |
To extend the DICOM standard beyond still Visible Light images, with still and motion color images produced by endoscopes, microscopes, or photographic cameras. |
| WG 14 |
Security |
To develop extensions to DICOM with respect to security. |
| WG 15 |
Digital Mammography |
To develop extensions to DICOM to support digital mammography and the structured reporting of Computer-Aided Detection / Diagnosis (CAD) results. |
| WG 16 |
Magnetic Resonance |
Modern MR pulse sequences cannot be described sufficiently by the current standard. Furthermore, new applications such as functional MR and MR fluoroscopy, as well as the non-imaging application MR spectroscopy, are not supported either. The organization of increasingly large datasets as single frame objects is far from optimal, and limitations of the existing definitions of spatial and temporal attributes are apparent. It has therefore been proposed that a new MR object be developed that contains a more extensive set of descriptive attributes and makes use of the multi-frame mechanisms and/or variants thereof as originally introduced by the nuclear medicine, ultrasound and x-ray angiography objects. |
| WG 17 |
3D |
To extend the DICOM Standard with respect to 3D and other multi-dimensional data sets. WG17 is extending DICOM to represent data types greater than two dimensions. In existing DICOM, the atomic unit of image data is the 2D frame. Some emerging acquisition modalities (as well as 3D visualization and quantitative analysis applications) are volumetric-based. These need a volumetric friendly representation. Additionally, new diagnostic modalities may generate data with multiple components. Existing DICOM does not support this. |
| WG 18 |
Clinical Trials and Education |
To extend the DICOM Standard with respect to clinical trials information and the storage of images for educational purposes. |
| WG 19 |
Dermatologic Standards |
[This working group is not currently active.] |
| WG 20 |
Integration of Imaging and Information Systems |
To develop DICOM and HL7 standards for image-related information for areas where the consistent use of HL7 and DICOM is of prime concern. Also, to provide the coordination and mutual education and understanding between the HL7 and DICOM organizations and their technical committees/working groups. |
| WG 21 |
Computed Tomography |
To develop an extended CT image object to support the many technological and clinical advances in Computed Tomography. In particular, the increase in the number of slices in an exam and the real-time capabilities of CT technology makes it desirable to create a new DICOM object with a multi-frame capability. Consistency with the MR Multi-Frame IOD under specification is important as many workstations support both CT and MR applications. Consistency with the new XA Multi-frame IOD is also important so that Cardiology or Angiography applications can benefit from both CT and X-ray acquisitions. |
