TO DEVELOP A DICOM VIEWER TOOL FOR VIEWING JPEG 2000 IMAGE AND PATIENT INFORMATION

Abstract

Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard is an image archive system which allow itself to serve as an image manager that control the acquisition, retrieval, and distributions of medical images within entire picture archiving and communication The DICOM technology is suitable when sending images between different departments within hospitals or/and other hospitals, and consultant. However, some hospitals lack the DICOM system. In this paper proposed algorithm view and converts .dcm image files jpeg2000 standard image, whereby the image should be viewable, using with common image viewer programs. Now this files are ready to transfer via internet and easily viewable on normal computer systems using JPEG2000 viewer or on Linux platform and Windows platform