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Waveform Presentation State



This supplement introduces Service Classes for storage and exchange of presentation information for DICOM waveform objects by adding a Waveform Presentation State IOD. The Waveform Presentation State object stores the display montages, i.e. calculative combinations of recorded channels, display filter and other display properties as well as arbitrary Annotations.

This supplement adds

  • a new Waveform Presentation State IE.
  • a SOP Class to store Waveform Presentation States and the related Modules.
In clinical neurophysiology it is important to be able to recreate the presentation of the recorded data as it was displayed during the recording or during review and reporting. This is important for example when activity is noted by the operator during recording and that view needs to be recreated post-hoc for review by a specialist.

In cardiology, technicians annotate previously recorded waveforms (e.g. from home monitoring Holter ECG) and highlights areas of interest. This information is essential input for the cardiologist who reviews the ECG and finally provides the report.

This supplement will be presented and discussed further in the base standard working group before going to Final Text.

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Patient Model Gender Enhancements



This supplement adds a comprehensive gender logical model for sex and gender representation in DICOM.

This facilitates communication between DICOM and the various HL7 systems.

The goal is to make the distinction between phenotypical sex and the patient's social context gender clear.

The approach is to add new optional sequences to the Patient Study Module.

The DICOM model extensions are consistent with the work in HL7 and FHIR:

- The HL7 Gender Harmony Project created a logical model to describe the information needed in an electronic record to support proper care for gender and sex diverse patients.

- The HL7 model includes both clinical information and social information.

This supplement also updates Patient Sex (0010,0040) description and some CIDs to match the HL-7 updated definition.

This supplement will be presented and discussed further in the base standard working group before going to Letter Ballot.

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Structural Heart SR Template



This supplement introduces SR templates for Structural Heart Procedures.

These procedures involve interventions aimed at addressing various conditions or abnormalities affecting the structures of the heart, excluding the coronary arteries.

Unlike open-heart surgery, these interventions are characterized by their minimally invasive nature or catheter-based approach.

Periprocedural imaging follows a consistent pattern of three phases: pre-operative assessment, intraprocedural assessment, and follow-up.

Throughout all three phases, echocardiography emerges as the primary imaging modality.

X-ray angiography is predominantly utilized for intraprocedural guidance.

CT may also find application in the pre-operative assessment and follow-up.

The templates proposed in the supplement are based the Simplified Adult Echocardiography Templates (root TID 5300), modified to support multimodality image acquisition.

Structural Heart Procedures include:

  • TAVI: Transcatheter Aortic Valve implantation
  • TAVR: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
  • TTVP: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Procedure
  • TTVR: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair
  • TEER: Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair
  • TMVr: Transcatheter Mitral Leaflet Clip Procedure
  • TMVR: Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement
  • LAAC: Left Atrial Appendage Closure


This supplement was voted ready to go out for Public Comments.

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DICOMWeb Modality Services



The DICOMweb Modality Services extends the existing DICOMweb services, mimicking the Modality Worklist (MWL) and Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) services that are already available in DIMSE.

It has been designed with the intention of facilitating proxies from/to DIMSE to/from DICOMweb Modality Services.

This supplement describes the way to perform modality services MWL and MPPS based on DICOM-web's UPS-RS.

The current main focus in the discussion is on how the detailed mapping is done. There are many clarification needed in the mapping on attribute level between MWL and UPS from the basis blueprint DIMSE services.

This supplement will be further presented and discussed in WG06 before going out for Public Comments.

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RDSR Informative Annex



This Supplement provides explanatory information on the creation and usage of RDSR (traditional and enhanced) within Angiography, Mammography, Radiography, CT, Dentistry modalities etc.

This supplement excludes Radiopharmaceutical and Patient Radiation Dose SR.

Given the modality-specific content definition of the RDSR, and the many different types of system configurations existing in the field, it becomes challenging for the manufacturers to have a clear understanding of the precise requirements for each type of device.

The purpose of this supplement can be summarized as follows:

- Give more information beyond the definitions in PS 3.16: describe real-world scenarios of typical equipment configurations, provide examples and encoding guidelines;

- Indicate restrictions on the applicable scenarios (defined terms recommended, values ranges, recommended presence of Content Items);

- Promote usage of optional Content Items under particular scenarios;

- Assess the applicability for some conditional Content Items under particular scenarios;

The scope of the proposed Supplement includes:

- An overview of the landscape of different modalities and types of equipment configuration, from simple legacy CR to modern integrated Angio equipment.

- Guidance on how to use the different TIDs and Content Items depending on the modality, equipment types and configurations.

This supplement will be further presented and discussed in the base standard group before going out for Public Comments.

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Eyecare measurements templates



This Supplement proposes to add templates, context groups, and coded vocabulary for eyecare measurements to the Standard.

These templates may be used in either SR documents, or for structured content in an Encapsulated PDF object.

While DICOM has standardized the ophthalmic image formats, it has not yet standardized the measurements derived from those images.

Note that there are several existing IODs that record measurements directly produced by various refractive devices that do not produce images (autorefraction, lensometry, keratometry, etc.).

The measurements of this Supplement are instead derived from analysis of images, typically retinal optical coherence tomography images.

This supplement will be further presented and discussed in WG06 before going out for Public Comments.

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