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 DICOM MPEG  item

• Preparation of proposal for  reactivating  the
  Work Item

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Request from Sony (Europe)

•  Most of the leading vendors in Endoscopy and
  Microsurgery assured us that they have people
  that can participate in the Working group.
• We think we can collect expertise from the known
  vendors and Sony MPEG experts to start this
  process.
• Olympus Hamburg, Keymed UK (Olympus repr. UK and
  Middle East), Karl Storz, Aesculap, Wolf, Carl
  Zeiss, Pentax Medical and Fujinon Medical. These
  are the most important manufacturers of Rigid-
  and Flexible Endoscopes and Surgical Microscope.
• As a chairman we hope we can propose a German
  Professor, fully known with Dicom, the committee
  and the Endoscopy modality. 

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Objectives of the work Item, seen by Sony

•  Streaming video will be widespread introduced
  for many applications this coming months, based
  on the many "boxes" that have been developed. On
  the mid-term the demand for a standard for
  streaming video will be stronger. For the moment
  a Dicom standard for file based MPEG-2 is a
  really strong demand as several vendors are now
  inventing to "record" video on a CD adding
  metadata in their propriety standard.
• If it will takes too long for a standard the
  danger is that one or more of these propriety
  standards have a considerable installed base of
  equipment. As Dicom will be the de-facto standard
  for diagnostic (Still) imaging in Endoscopy,
  Microsurgery, Gynaecology, Ophthalmology and ENT
  in the coming years, it is important to add the
  possibility of video clips, as they call these
  MPEG footage. 

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Proposal for work Item  reactivation process 

• Presentation of the objectives at the Seoul DSC
  meeting
• Work on the definition of the work to be done
  after analysis of (revisit sup 42 and 47)
• work done some years ago by Ultra Sound WG
• more specific requirements of the VL domain
• Submission of the proposal for a (new/existing)
  WG which meets mainly in Europe (to encourage
  participation of VL equipments vendors)