[Insight-users] GDCM and ITK

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:05 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But you can safely use ITK_USE_SYSTEM_GDCM and point to a a gdcm 2.x
>> installation.
>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>> 1) Any experience mixing gdcm2.x and ITK? How do you do it? Did you run into any problems?
>>
>> See above. I have been recently reported an issue with ITK + GDCM 2.x,
>> I had broken the old (untested) API that was inherited from
>> itk::DicomImageIO. So a couple of users have started using it.
>> Other than that it should work as a complete (better) replacement for
>> gdcm 1.x. Be warned that reading DICOM file will be much faster, you
>> may want to insert a couple of 'wait()' function in your code, to
>> completely reproduce the old gdcm 1.x behavior.
>>
>
> Is there any thing special needed to get the dicom metadictionary? I
> installed gdcm and recompiled gdcm and itk to use it. I have enabled
> USE_SYSTEM_GDCM in itk 3.12. However now all my calls to
> itk::ExposeMetaData return nothing.

Hum...my bad. No test reported that :(
I'll fix that ASAP

>  And the reader has empty strings
> for GetPatientName GetPatientSex ...

This has been fixed a couple of weeks ago...

Thanks for report...
-- 
Mathieu