Moreover, DICOM stores the sequential order in which the images were captured and this information is used by image viewers for image display. The metadata in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images contains information about patient identification, imaging equipment, health facility, provider and procedure performed. The aim of our study and the developed tool that we report in this paper is to support the ways in which radiology images can be fit with the cognitive abilities of patients, regardless of their level of education, socio-economic background and medical literacy. Some researchers have developed methods, primarily in the patient portal space, but most have only provided high-level concepts without creating tools that implement those concepts into practice. Thus, tools, image viewers and reporting verbiage need to be adapted for consumption by patients. However, more recently there has been clamoring for patients to be more actively involved in their healthcare, which begs the question - how do we represent images and radiology reports for consumption by patients?. Over the years, radiology informatics efforts have focused on improving imaging based on the cognitive abilities of the radiologist. Moreover, it is imperative that radiological reporting moves from being radiologist-centric to being patient-centric through better use of patient’s capabilities and establishing better fit with the cognitive abilities of the patients. Recommendation from these studies have called for focus on patient education, and ways to improve patient’s understanding of their radiological images. This includes improving patient understanding of the need for certain procedures, understanding own disease/condition, improving communication with clinicians and family members as well as improving participation in treatment. To demonstrate, the following utility class implements a static method, convertFormat(), which takes an input image path, an output image path, and format name of the output image: package lot of research has been conducted on radiological reporting to determine how patients can be actively involved in their own healthcare delivery. It throws an IOException exception if an error occurs during writing. The write() method returns true if it can find an ImageWriter and performs the conversion successfully, and return false if it couldn’t find any ImageWriter for the specified format. output: specifies an OutputStream to which the output image will be written.formatName: specifies format name of the output image, which can be: JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, WBMP and GIF.To obtain a BufferedImage object from the input image file, we can use the read(InputStream) which is also provided by the ImageIO class. image: specifies the input image as a subclass of the RenderedImageinterface, such as BufferedImage.The signature of this method is as follows:īoolean write(RenderedImage image, String formatName, OutputStream output) In Java, to convert an image from one type of format to another, use the static method write() provided by the class ImageIO under javax.imageio package.
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