Study on Medical Image Processing Technologies Based on DICOM

DICOM is an international standard for the storage and transmission of medical image. With the popularity of pictorial and computerized medical equipments and the development of hospital management information system, the standard is widely used. The technologies of medical image display and processing based on DICOM standard are studied. On the basis of analyzing the DICOM standards and file formats, the general idea of converting between the DICOM format and BMP format is brought forward, and the medical images can be displayed in the windows platform. The grayscale processing technologies of medical image are focused on and implemented by programming. The main methods of edge detection are discussed and the implementation steps are given. The software of DICOM medical image processing is realized by Visual C++ which can convert the medical images to BMP formats and display these medical images. The grayscale processing, anti-color, strength testing and other basic functions of medial images can be come true. It can provide convenience for medical diagnostics. Index Terms-DICOM, Medical image, Image Processing, Grayscale processing, Edge detection