Describes the development of a multimedia editor for radiology which allows one to load, store and work with radiological reports. These reports conform to the DICOM standard by using the 'structured reporting' supplement of DICOM. The user interface of the editor is implemented in Java. A DICOM toolkit is used to implement the structure of the reports. The toolkit is implemented in the programming languages C and C++ and can be compiled on the operating systems Linux, Windows NT/9x and Solaris. The programming languages used for the implementation of the user interface and for the construction of DICOM-conforming reports are connected via the Java Native Interface (JNI). The possibility to record spoken language or noises, to visualize DICOM images and to edit natural text is also provided.
['Lutz Vorwerk', 'Christoph Meinel']
A multimedia-editor for making findings in radiology