ITK/Release 4/DICOM

Improving DICOM Support

Goals

Improve the support for DICOM in ITK

1. DICOM communication layer (a.k.a. PACS support, DICOM Protocol)
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 and Brainstorming

Discussions about PACS Support

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