Design philosophy - create a good faith RDF representation of DICOM metadata.
This program will read a specified source directory containing DICOM files and create a matching folder with the same folder hierachy as the source and with the same file names but with a RDF turtle ".ttl" extension. This program's output has been modified to match and implement various discussions that have occurred within a community of people interested working with DICOM using a RDF tool chain.
This program is hardly the first of it's kind with several papers written on the subject.
*** Please note - this is a community effort and is not offical, nor part of the DICOM standard
It it a Java program developed using the GraalVM which will allow you to run the program as a Java runnable jar or as a native image not requiring a JDK/JRE to be installed. It is built upon Apache Jena and the DCM4CHE libraries.
- Must have working JDK21 environment
mvn -Pjar clean package- A runnable jar version "dcm2rdf-1.0.0.jar" will be in the target folder
java -jar dcm2rdf-1.0.0.jar -help will display instructions.
- Must have at least JDK23 GraalVM CE 23.0.1+11.1 installed with fully functional native-image build enviroment for the platform you are building for.
- mvn -Pnative clean native:compile
- Artifact "dcm2rdf" will be in target folder.
dcm2rdf -help will display instructions.
- A paper documenting the referenced community effort.
- More documentation
- Support other RDF serializations (only outputs Turtle at the moment)
- Link program output with existing official DICOM RDF terminology.
- DICOM SHACL development
- and much much more...
- 2009 Context-Driven Ontological Annotations In DICOM Images - Towards a semantic PACS
- 2013 DICOM metadata as RDF - <Preprint> <Source Code>
- 2014 Towards a semantic PACS: Using Semantic Web technology to represent imaging data
- 2014 RDF-ization of DICOM Medical Images towards Linked Health Data Cloud
- 2014 Semantic Search over DICOM Repositories
- 2015 An automatic method for the enrichment of DICOM metadata using biomedical ontologies
- 2015 Toward a View-oriented Approach for Aligning RDF-based Biomedical Repositories
- 2020 FAIR-compliant clinical, radiomics and DICOM metadata of RIDER, interobserver, Lung1 and head-Neck1 TCIA collections
- 2021 A semantic database for integrated management of image and dosimetric data in low radiation dose research in medical imaging