Telecommunications converter for visualization and navigation system in low-invasive medical manipulations

The article highlights the progress of information and telecommunication technologies as a basis for studying modern medical diagnostics, where digital technologies are widely used. Digital medical images can be easily analyzed, stored, and transmitted over telecommunications channels. Most manufacturers support the DICOM medical standard which contains complete, but in many cases redundant, information. There is considered the process of developing a cross-platform telecommunications converter of medical images for the system of visualization and navigation in low-invasive medical manipulations. The popular medical image format DICOM is considered in detail. An algorithm for converting data from the DICOM format into standard graphic files has been developed. The results of the converter operation are analyzed in the case of such characteristics as compression, signal-to-noise level and compression rate.