Development of medical imaging viewer: role in DICOM standard

PACS is an integrated communication network system which is consists of image acquisition devices, storage archiving units, display stations, computer processors, and database management systems. In medical industry, each medical equipment and PACS has been introduced the DICOM standard for closely connected usage with rather than independent usage. In this paper, we have reviewed the performance of JPEG and JPCG2000 used as medical image compression and file format. In addition, we introduced the DICOM viewer for JPEG and JPEG200 including raw image format.