Advances in imaging technologies have revolutionised the medical imaging and healthcare sectors, leading to the widespread adoption of PACS for the storage, retrieval, and communication of medical images. Although these systems have improved operational efficiency, significant challenges remain in effectively retrieving DICOM images, which are essential for diagnosis and overall patient care. Moreover, issues such as fragmented systems, interoperability barriers, and complex user interfaces can often prevent healthcare professionals from efficiently accessing medical images. Addressing these challenges, the Transversal PACS Browser API is a robust and user-friendly solution designed to enhance the process of querying and retrieving DICOM images. It offers advanced filtering capabilities through a variety of filter options as well as a custom field search, that allows users to easily navigate through large medical image collections with ease. Additionally, the application provides a unified interface for querying and retrieving from multiple PACS stations, addressing the challenges of fragmentation and complexity associated with accessing medical images. Other key features include the ability to pre-view images directly within the application. All of this contributes to the transversal nature of the API, serving not only healthcare providers, but anyone who relies on efficient access to these resources. To validate the performance and usability of the application, comprehensive testing was carried out with stakeholders of the field, the results of which showed general satisfaction, highlighting the API's clean design, ease of use, and effective search capabilities of the API, as well as the usefulness of previewing images within the application.

翻译：影像技术的进步彻底改变了医学影像和医疗保健领域，使得PACS系统在医学影像的存储、检索和通信中得到广泛应用。尽管这些系统提升了运营效率，但在有效检索对诊断和整体患者护理至关重要的DICOM图像方面仍存在重大挑战。此外，系统碎片化、互操作性障碍和复杂的用户界面等问题常常阻碍医疗专业人员高效访问医学影像。针对这些挑战，横向PACS浏览器API作为一种稳健且用户友好的解决方案，旨在优化DICOM图像的查询和检索流程。它通过多种筛选选项及自定义字段搜索提供高级过滤功能，使用户能够轻松浏览海量医学影像集合。该应用还提供了统一接口，可从多个PACS站点进行查询和检索，有效解决了医学影像访问中的碎片化和复杂性问题。其他关键功能包括直接在应用程序内预览图像的能力。所有这些特性共同构成了该API的横向普适性，不仅服务于医疗保健提供者，也惠及所有依赖高效访问这些资源的用户。为验证应用程序的性能和可用性，我们与领域内相关方进行了全面测试，结果显示普遍满意度，突显了API简洁的设计、易用性、高效的搜索能力以及应用内图像预览功能的实用性。