TY - GEN
T1 - DICOM File for Total Body Photography
T2 - Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery 2022
AU - Huang, Wei Lun
AU - Liu, Shuya
AU - Kang, Jun
AU - Gandjbakhche, Amir
AU - Armand, Mehran
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by the Intramural Research Program (IRP) of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the NSF 21-563 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Phase I of National Science Foundation under Grant No. (2127051).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SPIE
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Total-body photography (TBP) has gained increasing attention for facilitating early melanoma detection. TBP has advantages of monitoring temporal changes in lesions, screening a large number of lesions efficiently, and providing anatomical locations for dermatoscopic images. Since various digital imaging systems for TBP have been proposed, there is a need for a unified format for the storage of the data from TBP. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the international standard for medical imaging. Thanks to a considerable effort to develop dermatology-specific extensions to the DICOM standard, there is a recent supplement to the DICOM standard for individual dermoscopic images. This supplement, however, does not cover the requirements for TBP, which may include multiple wide field-of-view images. Moreover, TBP may be obtained using various methods i.e. the images can be acquired with either consumer-grade cameras, smartphones, or an automatic scanning machine. This paper provides an overview of the specific requirements and an outline of a “Work Item” leading to a Total Body Photography Information Object Definition (IOD). The “Work Item” is inclusively designed for accommodating current variants of TBP data to be compatible with the DICOM standard for dermoscopy and applicable to future systems and other potential use of TBP. We verified the feasibility of the proposed TBP DICOM in an imaging-rich full-body scanning system.
AB - Total-body photography (TBP) has gained increasing attention for facilitating early melanoma detection. TBP has advantages of monitoring temporal changes in lesions, screening a large number of lesions efficiently, and providing anatomical locations for dermatoscopic images. Since various digital imaging systems for TBP have been proposed, there is a need for a unified format for the storage of the data from TBP. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the international standard for medical imaging. Thanks to a considerable effort to develop dermatology-specific extensions to the DICOM standard, there is a recent supplement to the DICOM standard for individual dermoscopic images. This supplement, however, does not cover the requirements for TBP, which may include multiple wide field-of-view images. Moreover, TBP may be obtained using various methods i.e. the images can be acquired with either consumer-grade cameras, smartphones, or an automatic scanning machine. This paper provides an overview of the specific requirements and an outline of a “Work Item” leading to a Total Body Photography Information Object Definition (IOD). The “Work Item” is inclusively designed for accommodating current variants of TBP data to be compatible with the DICOM standard for dermoscopy and applicable to future systems and other potential use of TBP. We verified the feasibility of the proposed TBP DICOM in an imaging-rich full-body scanning system.
KW - DICOM
KW - Skin Cancer
KW - Total Body Photography
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2604884
DO - 10.1117/12.2604884
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85128417607
T3 - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
BT - Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery 2022
A2 - Choi, Bernard
A2 - Zeng, Haishan
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 22 January 2022 through 23 January 2022
ER -