I used to work with DICOM about 7 years ago. It was a complete shitshow. Most of the important data was in "private fields". Imagine all websites using CSS, but

I used to work with DICOM about 7 years ago. It was a complete shitshow. Most of the important data was in "private fields". Imagine all websites using CSS, but they all use different vendor-specific attributes like "-moz-border-radius: 5". Might as well use a proprietary format at that point.