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  "id": 369375,
  "title": "DICOMs, NIfTI and PACs (Picture Archiving and Communication System)",
  "url": "/competitions/rsna-breast-cancer-detection/discussion/369375",
  "author_name": "Marília Prata",
  "post_date": "2022-11-30T01:53:13.717000",
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  "content": "<p>Best Practice for Annotating DICOM and NIfTI Files - By Dr. Andreas Heindl  - September 28, 2022</p>\n<p>\"Medical imaging and annotation is a specialized field. Perhaps more so than any others, accuracy is crucial. When we consider the end-users, such as healthcare professionals, and the ultimate outcomes, the impact on patients, we can see why accuracy is crucial.\"</p>\n<p>\"In most cases, healthcare providers use the DICOM and NIfTI imaging standards. Medical images play a role in that, as 3D and 2D scans — regardless of the imaging standard — are integral to the diagnosis doctors give patients.\"</p>\n<h1>What is the difference between DICOM and PACS?</h1>\n<p>\"In most healthcare workplaces, doctors and specialists also use the Picture Archiving and Communication System, or PACS, alongside other imaging formats. PACS is used as a medical image storage and archive system, with images being fed into by radiologists and other medical specialists. Images usually come from X-ray machines and MRI scanners.\"</p>\n<p>\"On the other hand, the DICOM format is an international communication standard for storing, communicating and transmitting medical images with layers of metadata. Medical professionals can use both, with one format supporting the other to ensure every stakeholder involved in patient care has the necessary information.\"</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://encord.com/blog/best-practice-for-annotating-dicom-and-nifti-files\" target=\"_blank\">https://encord.com/blog/best-practice-for-annotating-dicom-and-nifti-files</a></p>",
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      "content": "<p>Best Practice for Annotating DICOM and NIfTI Files - By Dr. Andreas Heindl  - September 28, 2022</p>\n<p>\"Medical imaging and annotation is a specialized field. Perhaps more so than any others, accuracy is crucial. When we consider the end-users, such as healthcare professionals, and the ultimate outcomes, the impact on patients, we can see why accuracy is crucial.\"</p>\n<p>\"In most cases, healthcare providers use the DICOM and NIfTI imaging standards. Medical images play a role in that, as 3D and 2D scans — regardless of the imaging standard — are integral to the diagnosis doctors give patients.\"</p>\n<h1>What is the difference between DICOM and PACS?</h1>\n<p>\"In most healthcare workplaces, doctors and specialists also use the Picture Archiving and Communication System, or PACS, alongside other imaging formats. PACS is used as a medical image storage and archive system, with images being fed into by radiologists and other medical specialists. Images usually come from X-ray machines and MRI scanners.\"</p>\n<p>\"On the other hand, the DICOM format is an international communication standard for storing, communicating and transmitting medical images with layers of metadata. Medical professionals can use both, with one format supporting the other to ensure every stakeholder involved in patient care has the necessary information.\"</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://encord.com/blog/best-practice-for-annotating-dicom-and-nifti-files\" target=\"_blank\">https://encord.com/blog/best-practice-for-annotating-dicom-and-nifti-files</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Best Practice for Annotating DICOM and NIfTI Files - By Dr. Andreas Heindl  - September 28, 2022\n\n\"Medical imaging and annotation is a specialized field. Perhaps more so than any others, accuracy is crucial. When we consider the end-users, such as healthcare professionals, and the ultimate outcomes, the impact on patients, we can see why accuracy is crucial.\"\n\n\"In most cases, healthcare providers use the DICOM and NIfTI imaging standards. Medical images play a role in that, as 3D and 2D scans — regardless of the imaging standard — are integral to the diagnosis doctors give patients.\"\n\n#What is the difference between DICOM and PACS?\n\n\"In most healthcare workplaces, doctors and specialists also use the Picture Archiving and Communication System, or PACS, alongside other imaging formats. PACS is used as a medical image storage and archive system, with images being fed into by radiologists and other medical specialists. Images usually come from X-ray machines and MRI scanners.\"\n\n\"On the other hand, the DICOM format is an international communication standard for storing, communicating and transmitting medical images with layers of metadata. Medical professionals can use both, with one format supporting the other to ensure every stakeholder involved in patient care has the necessary information.\"\n\nhttps://encord.com/blog/best-practice-for-annotating-dicom-and-nifti-files",
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    "2049205": "Best Practice for Annotating DICOM and NIfTI Files - By Dr. Andreas Heindl  - September 28, 2022\n\n\"Medical imaging and annotation is a specialized field. Perhaps more so than any others, accuracy is crucial. When we consider the end-users, such as healthcare professionals, and the ultimate outcomes, the impact on patients, we can see why accuracy is crucial.\"\n\n\"In most cases, healthcare providers use the DICOM and NIfTI imaging standards. Medical images play a role in that, as 3D and 2D scans — regardless of the imaging standard — are integral to the diagnosis doctors give patients.\"\n\n#What is the difference between DICOM and PACS?\n\n\"In most healthcare workplaces, doctors and specialists also use the Picture Archiving and Communication System, or PACS, alongside other imaging formats. PACS is used as a medical image storage and archive system, with images being fed into by radiologists and other medical specialists. Images usually come from X-ray machines and MRI scanners.\"\n\n\"On the other hand, the DICOM format is an international communication standard for storing, communicating and transmitting medical images with layers of metadata. Medical professionals can use both, with one format supporting the other to ensure every stakeholder involved in patient care has the necessary information.\"\n\nhttps://encord.com/blog/best-practice-for-annotating-dicom-and-nifti-files"
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