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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers
83 years of excellence
Development of DICOS:
Data Format and Transmission Standard
for Security Screening
NEMA - The Association of Electrical and
Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers
Defense Daily Open Architecture Summit
November 18, 2010
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The Association of Electrical and Medical Imaging Equipment Manufacturers
83 years of excellence
What is NEMA?
Founded in 1926
≈ 450 member companies in 55 sections (product categories) that
manufacture products used in the generation, transmission and
distribution, control, and end-use of electricity.
Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of
NEMA, developed & maintains DICOM
 a global information technology standard—used in virtually all
hospitals worldwide
 ensures interoperability of systems that produce, store, display,
process, send, and retrieve medical images and manage related
workflow.
ANSI-accredited Standards Developer
Manages 500 standards; about half are ANSI standards
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NEMA Objective
Maintain and extend DICOS airport security
implementations, enabling scanning
equipment interoperability
Ensure that DICOS capabilities extend to
cargo screening and border protection
activities to further the DHS/TSA mission
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Security Equipment Communication
DICOS enables sharing data among different
vendors’ equipment. Data includes:
 Images and metadata
 Results of Automated Threat Detection (ATD) algorithms
 Operator/TSO decisions
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Equipment Interoperability
With interoperability, screening equipment
could produce, store, display, process, send,
and retrieve information — without regard to
manufacturer
Use different Automated Target Recognition
(ATR) / Automated Threat Detection (ATD)
algorithms as needed
DICOS specifically addresses the
interoperability challenge
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NEMA Members
Member Manufacturers
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Analogic Corp.
Applied Visual Sciences
AS&E
Aware Inc.
Brijot Imaging
DatCard Systems
General Dynamics
L-3 Communications
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Optosecurity Inc.
Rapiscan Systems
Reveal Imaging
Safran/Morpho Detection
Siemens Corp.
Smiths Detection
SureScan Corp.
TeleSecurity Sciences
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NEMA DICOS Contributors
 Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
 Battelle Memorial Institute
 U.S. Navy SPAWAR
Systems Center, Pacific
 Sandia National
Laboratories
 U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology
(NIST)
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DICOS Project Development
NEMA has standards development expertise,
member technical expertise, and DICOM
experience
A standards project is born
 At the request of DHS, DICOM (medical) was adapted into
DICOS (security)
 DICOM provided a sound technical basis for DICOS
development
 Many existing DICOM services and data infrastructure were
inherited and leveraged without change
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DICOM versus DICOS
DICOM
Patient
Subject of Exam =
Patient Only
About 3 patients per
hour/CT device,
depending on complexity
of exam, with scans ≈ 8
bags
DICOS
Passenger
Subject of Exam =
Passenger + checked
bags + carry-on
1,000 bags per hour/CT
device
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DICOS Project Status – Phase 1 Complete
Published NEMA IIC 1 v01 (DICOS v01)
August 2010
DICOS overview, including roots in DICOM
Addresses data representation for CT, DX,
TDR
Security scan site agnostic
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NEMA Role – How We Work
DICOM experience
Facilitate member discussion & decision
 Teleconferences – Working Groups
• Meeting times determined by the WG
 Full Section and Technical Committee
• Face-to-face Meetings and teleconferences
Monthly Status Update to DHS compiled/
distributed by NEMA
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Challenges
Open standards development arena vs.
security-sensitive / classified information
Extensibility
International Implementation
Speed vs Consensus
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Additional Steps
Ensure DICOS is developed with extensibility
in mind
 A standard that can be applied to any potential security
scanning environment, including port cargo inspections,
customs inspections, border patrol stations
 Include the ability to share images and data reports, to include
possible “remote screening” applications
 Incorporate appropriate data encryption safeguards for shared
data
 Extend DICOS to support software interoperability that will
facilitate rapid update of threat detection algorithms
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Additional Steps
Extend DICOS implementations to include
border protection and cargo security
applications
Integrate security checkpoints to create an
“electronic border” capable of seamlessly
sharing all data, regardless of source
Formulate a plan to address unique DHS
cargo security and border protection needs
with DICOS
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Q&A
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