Submit Public Comments on DICOM Supplement 235: HTJ2K Transfer Syntax

DICOM invites stakeholders to submit comments on Supplement 235: HTJ2K Transfer Syntax

Scope and Field of Application
This supplement covers the addition of the HTJ2K Transfer Syntax to PS3.5. The addition of HTJ2K is intended to address some of the shortcomings of JPEG 2000 which have prevented wider adoption of JPEG 2000, specifically, the performance of encoding and decoding as well as the encoder and decoder complexity.

All comments should be submitted as soon as possible but NO LATER than 11:59pm US EDT on Thursday, May 11, 2023.

• Who can comment?
  - All interested persons are invited to comment. Recipients of this solicitation should feel free to forward it to anyone who may be interested in this topic. There is no cost or obligation associated with commenting and DICOM membership is not required to comment. Commenters are requested to include their contact information.
• What will happen to your comments?
  - DICOM Working Group 6 (Base Standard) and DICOM Working Group 04 (Compression) will review the comments and discuss their resolution. WG-06 is authorized by the DICOM Standard Committee to decide on the technical merits of the comments.

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 – sup235_pc_HTJ2K.pdf
• WORD DOCUMENT – sup235_pc_HTJ2K.docx
• PPT OVERVIEW – sup235_pc_HTJ2K.pptx

<strong></strong>(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 Word Document or free text within your email. 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).