Patent ID: 7500185

Claim:
A method for validating a DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) SR (Structured Reporting) XML (Extensible Markup Language) document using a processor, wherein the processor is arranged to perform the method, the method comprising acts of: (a) selecting an XML schema of DICOM SR IOD (Information Object Definitions); (b) selecting an XML parser to perform syntactic validation by checking structures, DICOM tag information, and data types of the DICOM SR document; (c) determining which DICOM SR template is used; (d) selecting an XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) processor to perform semantic validation by validating a relationship type, value type, and coded concepts of a particular type of content item in the DICOM SR document against given values in the determined DICOM SR template; (e) generating validation result in XML; and (f) reporting the validation result.