View source for ITK/Release 4/DICOM/Meeting 2011.09.01 Roadmap

= Agenda =

# [[DICOM_Roadmap_Dec2011 | Review roadmap]]


= Attendees =

* Alex, Steve, Stephen, terry, dan and William

= Notes =

* DCMTK Module
** Modularization of ITK has been helpful
** Need to patch DCMTK to expose build settings to be used through external_project() / superbuild
** Need to create a FindDCMTK.cmake
*** Need to fix findpackage commands
*** Need a UseDCMTK.cmake file

* Need ITK ImageFile reader/writer using itk's IO factory mechanism based on DCMTK (  itkDCMTKImageIO a-la itkGdcmImageIO )
** Focus of Dan's team
** this is enough on the image processing point of view. One could/should decorrelate the PACS, Dicom Metadata handling, and image processing.

* Dicom Metadata dictionnary handling
** using DCMTK in memory structure (as CTK does)
** currently using gdcm in memory structure, at best
** structures being incompatible, you need to aprse twice today in slicer to go from itk to ctk
** Possible goal: Consistent population of MetaData Dictionary between DCMTK and GDCM, perhaps through DB
*** common in memory structure that could be populated arbitrarily by the user (file list, cosines, spacing, ...)?
*** common DB structure that could be then read into either gdcm or dcmtk ?
*** Work in progress
*** Future work - might not happen

* Implementation
** Code could be in a layer/repo that augements DCMTK ("DCMTK::PACSModule")
** Code could be shared by CTK and ITK::DCMTKModule
** http://support.dcmtk.org/wiki/dcmtk/howto/dcmscu-example

* Slicer
** Will use cmd line methods from DCMTK for now (RSNA Release)
** Will use DCMTK::PACSModule and ITK::DCMTKModule when they are ready

* Testing
** DCM4CHEE as main test
** dicom.co.uk as an alternative test
** Safe sequence of clinical PACS testing (C-ECHO) - as a "am I compatible with ITK DICOM" executable
** http://support.dcmtk.org/wiki/dcmtk/howto/dcmscu-example

* Funding
** Alex
*** 1 FTE until 15 of december
*** underspent
** Dan/William/Mayo
*** Underspent
** Terry mentioned that a no cost extension could be possible. The new target could be SPIE as there is an ITK tutorial programmed. That would give an extra one month and a half and could cover NAMIC week. Dan asked if traveling to SLC would then be covered?