ITK/Release 4/DICOM

Improving DICOM Support

Goals

Improve the support for DICOM in ITK

1. DICOM communication layer (PACS connection)
2. Streaming
3. Read and write RTStruct
4. type checking
5. minimum DICOM skeleton generation

other requests from the ITK community

handling of DICOMDIR format disk archives (navneeth)

• Unlike a standard dicom series (located in a single directory) the DICOMDIR format spreads files across directories
• A reader that reads the DICOMDIR file and parses appropriate files & directories is desirable

Discussions

how to test against PACS automatically ?

( thanks to Steve Pieper)

 I had a chance to ask Lawrence Tarbox of Washington University your question
 about dicom testing.  Lawrence is a participant in CTK and a long-time dicom
 standards participant too (he's actually working on the hosted application
 specification, which we should ultimately be compatible with).

 For PACS-like testing, he pointed to two well established efforts, linked
 below.  Lawrence knows people involved in these and thinks they might be
 receptive to seeing integration with ctest and cdash if you want to pursue
 that.  In any case I think we can learn a lot from these efforts.

 http://www.ihe.net/Connectathon/  (look for the MESA test suite)

 http://www.dvtk.org/

Contestants

• http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/CTSC:ARRA:Mockup
• http://www.dicomserver.co.uk/

Seting up a dcm4che server:

• http://www.osirix-viewer.com/PACS.html

design proposal

ITK Release 4/DICOM/MetaData

TCons

• TCon 2011/April/22, Minutes 2011_04_22
• TCon 2011/April/15, Minutes 2011_04_15
• TCon 2010/10/11, Minutes 2010_10_11

Meeting

• Meeting Iowa

• Meeting GDCM Tcon