Storing and retrieving large images via DICOM
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06K-009/60
G06F-012/00
G06F-017/30
출원번호
US-0337882
(2011-12-27)
등록번호
US-8781261
(2014-07-15)
발명자
/ 주소
Eichhorn, Ole
출원인 / 주소
Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Rawlins, Pattric J.
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초록▼
Systems and methods that acquire digital slides and other large images and store these images into commercially available PACS systems using DICOM-standard messaging are provided. A digital slide or other large two-dimensional image is acquired and each separate resolution level of the digital slide
Systems and methods that acquire digital slides and other large images and store these images into commercially available PACS systems using DICOM-standard messaging are provided. A digital slide or other large two-dimensional image is acquired and each separate resolution level of the digital slide or large image is divided into a series of regions that are each identified as a DICOM image. All of the regions at the same resolution in the digital slide or other large image are collectively identified as a DICOM series. A plurality of DICOM series, representing multiple resolution levels in a digital slide are collectively identified and stored as a DICOM study.
대표청구항▼
1. A system for viewing a digital slide image stored as a Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) study, the system comprising: a data storage area that stores a plurality of DICOM studies, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies corresponds to a single digital slide image at a
1. A system for viewing a digital slide image stored as a Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) study, the system comprising: a data storage area that stores a plurality of DICOM studies, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies corresponds to a single digital slide image at a plurality of resolutions and comprises a plurality of DICOM series, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM series corresponds to the single digital slide image at a single resolution and comprises a plurality of DICOM image files, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM image files corresponds to a portion of the single digital slide image at the single resolution;at least one hardware processor; andan image viewer module configured to, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, receive a first request for at least a first portion of a first digital slide image at a first resolution, and,in response to the first request, retrieve two or more first ones of a plurality of DICOM image files from a first DICOM series, corresponding to the first resolution, of a first DICOM study, corresponding to the first digital slide image, and align image data from the retrieved two or more first DICOM image files to create a first contiguous digital image of the requested at least a first portion of the first digital slide image at the first resolution. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the image viewer module is further configured to: receive a second request for at least a second portion of the first digital slide image at a second resolution; and, in response to the second request, retrieve two or more second ones of a plurality of DICOM image files from a second DICOM series, corresponding to the second resolution, of the first DICOM study, corresponding to the first digital slide image, and align image data from the retrieved two or more second DICOM image files to create a second contiguous digital image of the requested at least a second portion of the first digital slide image at the second resolution. 3. The system of claim 1, wherein each DICOM series includes all image data in the corresponding digital slide image at the single resolution. 4. The system of claim 1, wherein each DICOM image file has a pixel dimension of 500×500 pixels. 5. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of DICOM studies, plurality of DICOM series, or plurality of DICOM image files comprise a header comprising alignment information, and wherein the image viewer module is further configured to align the image data from the retrieved two or more first DICOM image files based on the alignment information. 6. The system of claim 1, wherein a first portion of the image viewer module resides on an image server and a second portion of the image viewer module resides on a viewer station. 7. The system of claim 1, wherein two or more of the plurality of DICOM series comprise at least four sets of a plurality of DICOM image files, wherein each of the at least four sets of a plurality of DICOM image files corresponds to a same digital slide image at a different resolution from the other one or more of the at least four sets of a plurality of DICOM image files. 8. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of DICOM image files comprise DICOM image files of varying dimensions. 9. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of DICOM image files are not compressed. 10. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of DICOM image files are stored with lossless or lossy compression. 11. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies further comprises a header comprising one or more attributes of the corresponding single digital slide image. 12. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM image files of a DICOM series comprises a header comprising alignment information for assembling image data from the DICOM image files into the single digital slide image at a single resolution corresponding to the DICOM series. 13. A computer implemented method for viewing a digital slide image stored as a Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) series, the method comprising: storing a plurality of DICOM studies, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies corresponds to a single digital slide image at a plurality of resolutions and comprises a plurality of DICOM series, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM series corresponds to the single digital slide image at a single resolution and comprises a plurality of DICOM image files, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM image files corresponds to a portion of the single digital slide image at the single resolution; andusing one or more hardware processors to receive a first request for at least a first portion of a first digital slide image at a first resolution, and,in response to the first request, retrieve two or more first ones of a plurality of DICOM image files from a first DICOM series, corresponding to the first resolution, of a first DICOM study, corresponding to the first digital slide image, and align image data from the retrieved two or more first DICOM image files to create a first contiguous digital image of the requested at least a first portion of the first digital slide image at the first resolution. 14. The method of claim 13, further comprising using the one or more hardware processors to: receive a second request for at least a second portion of the first digital slide image at a second resolution; and,in response to the second request, retrieve two or more second ones of a plurality of DICOM image files from a second DICOM series, corresponding to the second resolution, of the first DICOM study, corresponding to the first digital slide image, and align the retrieved two or more second DICOM image files to create a second contiguous digital image of the requested at least a second portion of the first digital slide image at the second resolution. 15. The method of claim 13, wherein each DICOM series includes all image data in the corresponding digital slide image at the single resolution. 16. The method of claim 13, wherein each DICOM image file has a pixel dimension of 500×500 pixels. 17. The method of claim 13, wherein one or more of the plurality of DICOM studies, plurality of DICOM series, or plurality of DICOM image files comprise a header comprising alignment information, and wherein aligning the image data from the retrieved two or more first DICOM images is based on the alignment information. 18. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of DICOM image files comprise DICOM image files of varying dimensions. 19. The method of claim 13, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies further comprises a header comprising one or more attributes of the corresponding single digital slide image. 20. The method of claim 13, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM image files of a DICOM series comprises a header comprising alignment information for assembling image data from the DICOM image files into the single digital slide image at a single resolution corresponding to the DICOM series. 21. A system for viewing a digital slide image stored as a Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) study, the system comprising: a data storage area that stores a plurality of DICOM studies, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM studies corresponds to a single digital slide image at a plurality of resolutions and comprises a plurality of DICOM series, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM series corresponds to the single digital slide image at a single resolution and comprises a plurality of DICOM images, wherein each of the plurality of DICOM images corresponds to a portion of the single digital slide image at the single resolution, and wherein one or more of the plurality of DICOM images are stored with no compression;at least one hardware processor; andan image viewer module configured to, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, receive a first request for at least a first portion of a first digital slide image at a first resolution, and,in response to the first request, retrieve two or more first ones of a plurality of DICOM images from a first DICOM series, corresponding to the first resolution, of a first DICOM study, corresponding to the first digital slide image, and align the retrieved two or more first DICOM images to create a first contiguous digital image of the requested at least a first portion of the first digital slide image at the first resolution.
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