Medical Imaging - Web DICOM Simulator (WDS)
The WDS provides an environment to test Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS)/ Radiology Information System (RIS) in DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine). The purpose of WDS is to provide the customer with DICOM communication with remote system (RIS/PACS) in order to check modality products through Internet.

Client Profile
A leading medical devices manufacturer.

Salient Simulator Features
Some of the features of the simulator are:

• The simulator provides two key DICOM services namely, modality work list management service and storage service.
  • In modality work list management service, a work list that contains scheduled information of diagnosis examination from test target system (RIS/PACS) is obtained and the retrieved work list is then registered (both DICOM Image and information) to DB Server.
  • In the storage service, simulator gets the DICOM image from the DB Server and sends it to test target system.
• The WDS solution is designed in a three layer structure.
• User interface layer (GUI).
• Business logic layer (User interface functionality).
• Data Access Layer.

Salient Ushus Solution Features
Ushus provided the client with an innovative solution to simulate a DICOM communications system. We enabled the customer to efficiently setup a DICOM test environment to check their modality products.

Some of the features enabled by Ushus include:

• User Interface Layer (GUI):
  • Developed Web application with GUI.
  • The GUI application provides an interface through which the user will be able to test different DICOM services.
  • Design approach to facilitate the changes to be incorporated in UI in future development without affecting the existing functionality. This was achieved by handling all the relevant functionalities through APIs.
• Business Logic:
  • Developed modules for user management, configuration management, error logging and usage of WDS.
  • Developed web service module that monitors and records usage information of system.
  • Developed a DB handler module to handles various database operations.
• Data Access Layer:
  • Developed a wrapper over the API provided by the customer.
  • Implemented modality work list management, storage service and registering work list functionalities to customer database.

Key Customer Value

• Provided with innovative and cost-effective solution.
• Developed a design so as to felicitate additional feature implementation in future.
• Our expertise in DICOM and web application helped in delivering the solutions ahead of expectation.
• Enabled customer to reduce time for testing modality products.