Patent ID: 7373600

Claim:
A method for mapping a DICOM-SR document into an XML document, comprising: mapping each DICOM attribute of a plurality of DICOM attributes in the DICOM-SR document into a corresponding XML element of a plurality of XML lements, outputting each XML element of the plurality of XML elements to the XML document, in a format that conforms to an XML document-type-definition of the XML document, and parsing each DICOM attribute to segregate a DICOM data type, and a DICOM codeID from the DICOM attribute, wherein the mapping includes: assigning the DICOM codeID to a first attribute of the corresponding XML element, mapping the DICOM data type to a corresponding value type of the corresponding XML element, and assigning the corresponding value type to a second attribute of the corresponding XML element, and wherein the mapping of each DICOM attribute into a corresponding XML element is independent of the XML document-type-definition of the XML document.