Supplement 224: Service Discovery and Control

With the rise of artificial intelligence, containerised processing, service-oriented architecture and microservices, there are a growing number of processing services in the medical imaging space. Systems that use these services need to discover what services are available and to launch and control these services (for example, signalling a service to change its operational state). This draft resource provides mechanisms for discovering and managing processing services. It also covers support mechanisms for data exchange with a focus on transaction security.

Main sections:

· Scope and field of application

· Service discovery and control overview

· Resources

· Scopes

· Components

· Traits

· Application configuration

· Manifests

· Registration

· Discovery

· Control

· DICOM standardised resource definition schemas