[Insight-users] itk or vtk to load series of DICOM images

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
<jmrbcu at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi folks, I need to load series of multi modal DICOM images and then
> display it, I can do this with vtk and itk from python, both are using
> the same lib: GDCM which is a GOOD thing but, which on is better to
> use for this task?

I do not understand why you are asking a GDCM question on ITK mailing
list... Anyway, here is my point of view:

1. VTK by default uses DICOMParser (not GDCM)
2. ITK by default uses GDCM 1.2.x (not GDCM 2.x)

You should really start using GDCM 2.x, two options:
1. Use vtkGDCMImageReader (*)
2. Use ITK 3.14 (or up), and use a system installed GDCM, then
configure ITK to use this system installed GDCM (see
ITK_USE_SYSTEM_GDCM). ITK packages on debian and ubuntu are setup this
way.

Cheers,
-- 
Mathieu

(*) http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/classvtkGDCMImageReader.html