[Insight-developers] reading 3D tiff (/dcm pair Mevis)

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Just FYI,

  GDCM 1.2.4 (currently integrated in ITK) does compile with VS 6.
  GDCM 2.0.8 (currently only available only as external package on
sf.net) does not compile with VS6

2cts

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rashindra,
>
>
> The current version of GDCM does not support Visual Studio 6.0,
> which is one of the platforms used in ITK.
>
>
> This issue should be resolved before we update the version
> of GDCM that is distributed with ITK.
>
> The two obvious options are:
>
>    1) modify GDCM to support Visual Studio 6.0
>
>    2) Drop the support for Visual Studio 6.0 in ITK
>
>
>  Regards
>
>
>     Luis
>
>
> -----------------------------
> Rashindra Manniesing wrote:
>>
>> HI Mathieu,
>>
>> Actually, the dcm file is used as separate and single header file (and the
>> latest gdcm version is able to read this, but not the version shipped with
>> itk); the tiff file is a 3D image (possibly 4D, with time unfolded in 3D),
>> which again is readable by the latest libtiff, but not with the current
>> version included with itk. Hence, my questions on updating these external
>> libraries.
>> Best regards,
>> Rashindra
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com] Sent: Friday,
>> September 19, 2008 13:32
>> To: Rashindra Manniesing
>> Cc: insight-developers at itk.org
>> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] reading 3D tiff (/dcm pair Mevis)
>>
>> GDCM does support (to some extent) multi frames DICOM files. So simply
>> try to read your file as if it was a regular DICOM and that should do
>> it.
>>
>> 2cts
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Rashindra Manniesing
>> <r.manniesing at erasmusmc.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am interested in extending the itk imageIO factor to support the
>>> (Mevis)
>>> dcm/tiff file format (3D).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that the current tiff fileformat only supports 2D files.
>>> However,
>>> since ITK uses libtiff, it should be easy to extend to 3D.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My questions:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -          the current libtiff version in itk does not seem to be the
>>> most
>>> recent one. Can we expect an update in the near future?
>>>
>>> -          Same question for gdcm
>>>
>>> -          Who is managing these libraries in itk, perhaps we can
>>> communicate directly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A possibility, as single user, is to simply use external libraries
>>
>> (setting
>>
>>> with cmake), but I suppose updating to the latest versions of these
>>
>> packages
>>
>>> would be beneficial for the general audience,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rashindra Manniesing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>



-- 
Mathieu