ITK/Release 4/DICOM/Meeting 2011.09.01 Roadmap

Agenda

1. Review roadmap

Attendees

• Alex, Steve, Stephen, and William

Notes

• DCMTK Module
  • Modularization of ITK has been helpful
  • DCMTK was forked by CTK, but now uses direct DCMTK repo
  • Need to patch DCMTK to expose build settings
  • Need to fix findpackage commands
    • Need a UseDCMTK.cmake file
• Need ITK ImageFile reader/writer based on DCMTK
  • Focus of Dan's team
• Consistent population of MetaData Dictionary between DCMTK and GDCM
  • Work in progress
• Need way of storing header info from DICOM objects in memory and on disk in an established way
  • SQL database
  • Future work - might not happen
• Implementation
  • Code will be in a layer/repo that augements DCMTK ("DCMTK::PACSModule")
  • Code will 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 - as a "am I compatible with ITK DICOM" executable
• Funding
  • Alex
    • 1 FTE for 2 weeks
  • Dan/William/Mayo
    • Underspent