Hello DI Community,

A vote of abstention was registered with DICOM on behalf of the Canadian DI community.

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Raqia Hazam

Hello DI Community,

Please see this request from DICOM regarding Correction Package #98 . Please submit your response by end of day October 18 2018 so I can comment on your behalf. If I don't receive any feedback by the deadline, Canada will abstain.

Thank you,

Raqia


To: Members of the DICOM Standards Committee
Voting and Alternate Voting Representatives

Information Copy:DICOM Community: Members and Observers of All DICOM Working Groups and Committees
This e-mail (without the ballot) will also be sent, under separate cover, FOR INFORMATION ONLY, to the Members and Observers of all DICOM Working Groups and Committees.

From: DICOM Secretariat Office
Luiza Kowalczyk, Senior Operations DICOM Manager
Lisa Spellman, General DICOM Secretary

Subject: Letter Ballot for Proposed DICOM Correction Package #98 (CPack-98)

Issued: 2018-09-17
Due: 2018-11-05

Following is a letter ballot seeking DICOM Standards Committee approval of proposed DICOM Correction Proposals (CPs).
Note: only the officially designated voting representatives (or alternates) of the Members of the DICOM Standards Committee (See list.) are invited and entitled to cast a ballot.
Others in the DICOM Community receive a copy of this ballot as a courtesy so that all will be apprised of anticipated revisions or extensions to the DICOM Standard.

The DICOM Standard, which addresses image communication and related data management functions, was first published in 1993. DICOM Working Group Six regularly reviews and approves extensions (Supplements), clarifications and error fixes (Correction Proposals) to the Standard. Requests for such fixes or clarifications or general questions and comments may be submitted by anyone to the Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). CPs are batched into C-Packs for balloting to the DICOM Standards Committee members. Approved corrections are incorporated into the next edition of the DICOM Standard, which is now released 5 times a year, following each WG-06 meeting.

Correction Proposals may address:
•Ambiguities – standard text that is not precise or leads to various interpretations.
•Clarifications – to facilitate the interpretation of the Standard but not change the spec
•Errata – correction of normative and informative errors.
•Inconsistencies – sections of the Standard that contain conflicting definitions.
•Omissions – Obvious text was not included in the Standard.

The following Correction Proposals, approved by WG-06, are included in this ballot:

CP# Title
• 991: Clarify Handling of Private Data in the Retrieve Without Bulk Data Service
•1663: Add Attribute to convey OPT Scan Patterns in OPT IOD
•1747: Update DICOM to reflect changes in IHTSDO SNOMED CT-DICOM Subset for JAN 2018 INT Release
•1787: Consistency of Attributes added in Standard Extended SOP Classes
•1788: Remove unnecessary use of no Baseline CID in templates and clarify conventions
•1789: Allow categorical observations without measurements for ROIs in TID 1500
•1790: Correct relationship of Reconstruction Algorithm in TID 10013 CT Irradiation Event Data
•1791: Clarify Transfer Syntax for STOW-RS of PS3.10 files
•1792: Clarify that elements defined in part 6 as GGxx,EEEE only apply where xx is even
•1794: Correct some mistakes in PS3.4 annexes Y, Z, and AA
•1795: Retire section I.4.1 of PS3.4
•1796: DIMSE Service Element and DIMSE Service Group table caption
•1798: Fix partly inconsistent list of VRs affected by certain types of Attribute Matching
•1799: Fix list of VRs having a VM of 1
•1801: Update to the Application Level Confidentiality Profile Attributes table
•1802: Add refractive surgery type SMILE to CID 4234 Refractive Surgery Types
•1803: Add “Source of Data” details for Corneal Size measurement values used in Intraocular Lens Calculations IOD (IOL
•1804: Clarify handling of ICC profiles in WADO-RS for encapsulated images such as JPEG
•1809: Add Coded form of Institutional Department

Each proposal specifies the type of correction, the rationale for the correction, the sections of the DICOM Standard that will be changed, and the correction wording. In voting, you may vote on the complete package or vote on the individual Correction Proposals.
Members of the DICOM Standards Committee (voting representatives or their alternates) are invited to mark the below ballot indicating whether you:
•Approve the complete package,
•Approve the complete package with comments,
•Disapprove the complete package (comments required,)
•Abstain, or
•Abstain with comments.
Any negative vote should be accompanied by comments on the particular paragraph or area with which you take exception. However, you may make a comment even if you vote in favor of a particular Correction Proposal. All objections and comments will be addressed. If you do make comments, please identify the specific Correction Proposal to which your comments apply.

All of the balloted Correction Proposals may be found at:
ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/CP/CPack-98-PDFftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/CP/CPack-98-PDF
Additionally, some of the Correction Proposals may be found in other formats at:
ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/CP/CPack-98-Word/
ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/CP/CPack-98-DocBook/
If you cannot obtain a copy of the Correction Package from the above site, please contact Luiza Kowalczyk at (703) 841-3259 or at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a hard copy.
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