Ontology for healthcare metadata - especially metadata found in DICOM files (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, see http://dicom.nema.org/). Author: Michael Brunnbauer, Bonubase GmbH (www.bonubase.com). The author's email address is brunni@netestate.de. See http://purl.org/healthcarevocab/v1help for explanations.

Prefix

dicom

Keywords

ontology

Version

v2015-01-11

Links

Homepage OWL

Publications

2013 Multi-series DICOM: an extension of DICOM that stores a whole study in a single object

2005 DICOM demystified: a review of digital file formats and their use in radiological practice

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Healthcare metadata - DICOM ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

109082   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Healthcare metadata - DICOM ontology should match this regular expression:
^dicom:\d+$

Example CURIE

dicom:109082

Contact

David Clunie   0000-0002-2406-1145

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection (2)

FHIR External Terminologies NFDI4BIOIMAGE Collection

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 109082 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Healthcare metadata - DICOM ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.