19. Are All 2D images stores in DICOM?
ND320 C2 L2 18 Edge Case- Microscopy Data Video
Summary
Not all 2D medical images are stored as a DICOM. Microscopy images are not stored in DICOM since they do not come from a digital machine. Instead, they are biological data and come from smeared physical cells from patients.
The first step of transforming microscopy into a digital image is to get the cell sample from a patient. Then cells are dyed into different colors based on their structure and viewed by a microscope. The microscopy data is then captured by a camera to form a digital image. This transformation technique is called digital pathology.
Once images are digitized, they can be processed with ML in the same way as you would with the pixel data extracted from DICOM.