Breaking data silos: incorporating the DICOM imaging standard into the OMOP CDM to enable multimodal research.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This work incorporates the Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM) to standardize and accurately represent imaging studies, such as acquisition parameters, in multimodal research studies.

Materials and methods

DICOM is the internationally adopted standard that defines entities and relationships for biomedical imaging data used for clinical imaging studies. Most of the complexity in the DICOM data structure centers around the metadata. This metadata contains information about the patient and the modality acquisition parameters. We parsed the DICOM vocabularies in Parts 3, 6, and 16 to obtain structured metadata definitions and added these as custom concepts in the OM

SUBMITTER: Park WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12451937 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature