DICOM Roadmap Dec2011

Tasks

Complete GDCM work (Alex)

• Finish adding support for DICOM RT and streaming
• Do not pursue DICOM Networking from GDCM

Create ITK::DCMTK Module

• Use ITK module support to include DCMTK with ITK compilation
• Offer DCMTK Reader/Writer in ITK's IO factory
• Define data structures for specifying which DICOM Object files should be composed into a volume (when reading) or which DICOM Object files were created when saving a volume to disk. The application can optionally serialize these data structures (e.g. in sqlite) so that previously parsed data can be quickly loaded into ITK without needing to be re-parsed.
  • Ideally datastructure can also be used by GDCM for reading/writing

Create DICOM-PACS Module for ITK (?)

• Share (via GIT/Superbuild) DCMTK-PACS code from Slicer/CTK
  • This is the code used to issue a query and receive a list of files
  • The list of files should use the datastructure from ITK::DCMTK Module (Task 2)
• Update ITK to share (via GIT/Superbuild) DCMTK-PACS code from Slicer/CTK
  • Offer as DICOM-PACS module in ITK
  • Searches returned should be easily passed to the ITK::DCMTK IO facility (Task 2) for reading once transfer has been completed.
  • Also, when multiple DICOM objects have been written to disk, the same data structure for writing them should be able to be passed to the DICOM-PACS Module for upload to a PACS

Slicer DICOM-Objects->itk::Image via DCMTK

• Update Slicer so that reading/writing DICOM Objects to/from itk::Image is done via ITK's DCMTK

Setup DICOM-PACS Testing

• Install DICOM Server
  • DCM4CHEE
• Create DICOM PACS Tests
  • ITK-only tests
  • ITK+CTK tests
  • Slicer tests
• Install tests in CTK and ITK