建立应用程序接口（API）的规范，称为程序员成像内核系统（PIKS）。PIKS旨在为图像和图像衍生数据对象提供丰富的低级和高级服务。这些服务可以作为构建块用于广泛的常见成像应用。清单中包含PIKS提供和未提供的技术能力摘要。应该注意的是，PIKS功能可能对“非PIKS提供”列表中的许多技术作为预处理器或协处理器很有用。

Establishes the specification of the application program interface (API), called the Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (PIKS). PIKS is intended to provide a rich set of both low-level and high-level services on image and image-derived data objects. These services can be used as building blocks for a broad range of common imaging applications. Lists are included containing a summary of technological capabilities provided by PIKS and not provided by PIKS. It should be noted that PIKS functionality may be useful as a pre-processor or co-processor for many of the technologies in the "Not provided by PIKS" list.