Glossary
- DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data
- Image artifact: An object or distortion in an image that reduces its quality
- Foreign body: An object in a medical image that is not biological material from the patient, such as a pacemaker or wire
- Metadata: A set of data that describes another set of data
- Pathologist: A special type of clinician who reads and interprets microscopy and digital pathology data
- intensity profile: the distribution of all pixels' intensity values that comprise an image
- PHI: any individually identifiable health information, including demographic data, insurance information, and other information used to identify a patient