Patent ID: 7373596

Claim:
A method for converting an electronic DICOM document into an electronic UML document utilizing a constrained UML profile, the method comprising the acts of: converting each DICOM Information Entity in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document utilizing a naming convention based on a name of each DICOM Information Entity converted, converting each DICOM IOD Module in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document utilizing a naming convention based on a name of each DICOM IOD Module converted, converting each DICOM Macro in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document utilizing a naming convention based on a name of each DICOM Macro converted, converting each DICOM Attribute in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML attribute in the UML document utilizing a naming convention based on a name of each DICOM Attribute converted, each act of converting based on the constrained UML profile, and providing the electronic UML document, based on results from the converting acts, to at least one of a user, a storage device, and a UML processing system for processing.