Public Comments - DICOM Supplement 225 - Multi-Fragment Video Transfer Syntax

Hello All,

DICOM is seeking public comments for Supplement 225 - Multi-Fragment Video Transfer Syntax.

Scope and Field of Application
This supplement modifies existing video transfer syntaxes to remove the restriction that the video cannot be broken up into multiple fragments. The affected transfer syntaxes are:
• MPEG2 Main Profile / Main Level Video Compression
• MPEG2 Main Profile / High Level Video Compression
• MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 High Profile / Level 4.1 Video Compression
• MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 High Profile / Level 4.2 Video Compression
Videos of size larger than 2^32-4 bytes have started to appear (e.g. procedure video recordings). Previously, those videos needed to be split into multiple DICOM instances.

Instructions for accessing the documents and submitting comments:
1. Download documents from the website (www.dicomstandard.org/comment)
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FTP server (ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/Supps/PC/) under the file names:
 PDF DOCUMENT - sup225_pc.pdf
 WORD DOCUMENT - sup225_pc.docx
 PPT OVERVIEW - sup225_pc.pptx
(To facilitate the readers’ understanding of this new proposed addition to the DICOM Standard, the authors prepared a PowerPoint presentation which describes the technical issues and use cases.)

2. Submit comment(s): Send your comments to Shayna Knazik (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) via free text or Word Document. Be sure to include the following information:
 Commenter’s name, affiliation, e-mail address.
 Comment – may be a higher-level statement or a detailed technical comment with tables, illustrations, cut-and-paste from the draft, etc.
 Proposed solution – may be a higher-level statement or a marked-up version or new text, tables, illustrations, etc.
 Line numbers associated with your comment(s).


Please review the documentation and submit any comments as soon as possible but no later than 11:59pm on Friday September 3, 2021.
Your feedback is important.

Best regards,
Joanie Harper