Design of Web Based Dicom Processing Software System for Telemedicine with Mobile and Smart Television

Nowadays, DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine), an international standard used worldwide to store, print, handle and transmit various medical images, has provided a simple method to access medical images from computers throughout the hospital. This helps eliminate completely the usage of costly traditional films in X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound, which are not healthy for the environment. Besides, the existing infrastructure of the Internet has allowed us to develop a low-cost system capable of being used for medical image services on any smart device, especially over long distance. The purpose of this article is to design and implement web-based DICOM processing software system for telemedicine applications with mobile and smart television (TV). First, we identify several science and technology challenges and our methods of implementation for a web-based DICOM medical image processing system with mobile and smart TV. Then we describe the structure and functions of our system for diagnostics and consultation. Moreover, an efficient solution to enhance information security in DICOM images over the Internet is also proposed by exploiting different techniques of data encoding, cryptography and watermarking. The system has been implemented and evaluated in hospitals, which shows the usefulness and significant cost-savings of our solution.