# DICOM **Domain:** Medical Imaging / Clinical Interoperability **Doc Type:** Technical Standard Node **Maturity:** Established International Standard **Related:** [[FHIR ImagingStudy]], [[DICOM Working Group 32]], [[DICOM Real-Time Video]], [[Neural Data Provenance]] --- ## Definition **Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)** is the standards family for representing, exchanging, retrieving, and managing medical imaging and related clinical objects. It defines information objects, services, identifiers, metadata, transfer syntaxes, and workflows used across clinical systems. ## Neural-interface role DICOM connects neuroimaging and neurophysiology to patient, procedure, device, study, series, and archive context. It complements research-oriented standards rather than replacing them.