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

[Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao]

in fact, I am using itk v3.16. With the vtk  way I am using
vtkGDCMImageReader and with itk I checked ITK_USE_SYSTEM_GDCM. What I
want to know is which is the better way to load series of multi modal
DICOM images, with the vtk way or the itk way?

On 11/23/09, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>


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Centro de Biofisica Medica
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