This is a BIG deal, congratulations and I hope you guys take time to reward yourself :-)<div>W<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:27 AM, OFFIS DICOM Team <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dicom@offis.de">dicom@offis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear all,<br>
<br>
you won't believe it -- but today we released version 3.6.0 of DCMTK :-) It<br>
took us some years to finally consolidate all our recent changes into a<br>
release but I hope next official version will not take us 5 years again...<br>
However, we have not been lazy the last years, see the official announcement<br>
with the "best of" changes below. I know most of you are working on the<br>
latest snapshots/git checkouts anyway.<br>
<br>
Thank's to all the CTK people that were contributing to DCMTK and especially<br>
kickstarted the CMake build system to run under Unix systems!<br>
<br>
I am sorry that we/I do not have time to put much work into CTK's DICOM<br>
interfaces the last months. I have already mailed Marco how we could move<br>
forward with that from my point of view.<br>
<br>
Enjoy the CTK Hackfest in February! Unfortunately I'm not able to<br>
participate since I (must) take my 2010 holidays in complete February and it<br>
is always difficult for me to get funding here for such trips in general. If<br>
will try to be online some hackfest hours in Skype. So if you have some<br>
urgent issues to discuss, add me as "michaeloffis" to your contact list or<br>
email me.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Michael<br>
<br>
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<br>
ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
<br>
Version 3.6.0 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available<br>
for public release. This release includes the following main changes over<br>
the previous version 3.5.4:<br>
<br>
- DCMTK 3.6.0 now also builds correctly with GNU gcc 4.1 (and higher),<br>
Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.<br>
<br>
- Tested with latest versions of the following operating<br>
systems/environments:<br>
<br>
- Linux on x86 and x86_64<br>
- FreeBSD on x86 and x86_64<br>
- MacOS X on x86_64<br>
- Windows on x86 and x86_64<br>
- Cygwin and MinGW/MSys on x86<br>
<br>
For a complete list of tested systems and compilers, see the INSTALL file.<br>
<br>
- The CMake build system can now also be used with other operating systems<br>
than Windows. However, GNU autoconf is still supported and should be<br>
preferred on systems where the CMake project files fail.<br>
<br>
- New module oflog introduces a unified DCMTK-wide approach for logging<br>
based on the log4cplus library. Direct output to console, file, syslog<br>
and event log. All DCMTK command line tools now have the same set of<br>
logging options.<br>
<br>
- New module dcmjpls adds support for JPEG-LS compressed DICOM images based<br>
on the CharLS library. The tools dcmcjpls and dcmdjpls allow for<br>
compressing and decompressing DICOM images with JPEG-LS from the command<br>
line.<br>
<br>
- New tool img2dcm allows for converting JPEG and BMP images to various<br>
DICOM image IODs, e.g. old and new Secondary Capture, Visible Light<br>
Photographic. The underlying C++ class library can also be used<br>
separately.<br>
<br>
- New tool dcm2pdf allows for extracting PDF files from DICOM Encapsulated<br>
PDF Storage SOP instances.<br>
<br>
- New tool dcml2pnm allows for converting JPEG-LS compressed DICOM imagesto<br>
standard image formats like TIFF or BMP.<br>
<br>
- The tools dcmdump and storescu have new options for searching directories<br>
recursively for DICOM files.<br>
<br>
- The tool dcmdump now also has a colored output of the textual dump. So<br>
far, this option is available on non-Windows systems only (uses ANSI<br>
escape code).<br>
<br>
- The tool dcmodify now also supports reading the value of insert and modify<br>
statements from a file. This is especially useful for large element<br>
values.<br>
<br>
- The tool dsr2html now also supports the output in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1<br>
format. There are also new options that affect the rendering result.<br>
<br>
- The tool dump2dcm now also supports compressed pixel data. In addition,<br>
the memory requirements for very large data elements have been reduced.<br>
<br>
- The tool xml2dcm can now also read binary data (e.g. pixel data) from a<br>
separate file. The corresponding feature is not yet available in dcm2xml.<br>
<br>
- The tool storescp now has a new option that allows for accepting all<br>
supported transfer syntaxes on a single association.<br>
<br>
- The tool wlmscpfs now supports multi-process mode both on Posix and<br>
Windows platforms where a new child process is created for each incoming<br>
association.<br>
<br>
- Refactored code of the tool findscu into a C++ class. This facilitates<br>
re-use of the findscu code in other applications.<br>
<br>
- Added further "switches" to the dcmdata module which allow to better cope<br>
with incorrectly encoded DICOM files or datasets. These switches are also<br>
available as new options to the tools dcmdump and dcmconv.<br>
<br>
- The dcmdata module now also gives access to partial attribute values<br>
without loading the complete attribute value into memory, if kept in file.<br>
<br>
- The write methods in dcmdata now handle large raw data elements without<br>
loading everything into memory. This allows very large images to be sent<br>
over a network connection or to be copied without ever being fully in<br>
memory.<br>
<br>
- The dcmdata module now has a common interface for the frame-wise accessto<br>
compressed and uncompressed pixel data without ever loading the complete<br>
object into main memory.<br>
<br>
- The dcmimgle/dcmimage module makes use of the new partial access to pixel<br>
data for processing large multi-frame images in a stepwise manner.<br>
<br>
- The dcmimgle/dcmimage module and related tools now also support a new<br>
bilinear and a bicubic scaling algorithm for image magnification.<br>
Furthermore, the sigmoid VOI LUT function has been implemented.<br>
<br>
- Added support for Colon CAD SR, Spectacle Prescription Report, Macular<br>
Grid Thickness and Volume Report as well as Implantation Plan SR<br>
documents to the dcmsr module.<br>
<br>
- Incorporated fixes to dcmsr module which were introduced by various<br>
correction proposals. Added support for the new optional Preliminary<br>
Flag.<br>
<br>
- DICOMDIR tools and classes now support all new SOP classes and directory<br>
record types. Also added a new operating mode that allows for updating<br>
existing entries in a DICOMDIR.<br>
<br>
- Introduced general path syntax for accessing nested elements from command<br>
line tools like findscu or dcmodify.<br>
<br>
- Added methods for checking the value representation (VR) and value<br>
multiplicity (VM) of data elements for conformance with the DICOM<br>
standard.<br>
<br>
- Network tools now support transmission and receipt of JPEG-LS and MPEG2<br>
transfer syntaxes.<br>
<br>
- Added support for the extended negotiation of user identity to the dcmnet<br>
module. The first tool that makes use of this new feature is storescu.<br>
<br>
- Introduced new experimental SCU and SCP classes that act as a C++ wrapper<br>
to the still C-based dcmnet module.<br>
<br>
- Added new class OFFile that provides a simple encapsulation layer for file<br>
based stream I/O and, in particular, provides large file support (LFS)if<br>
available on the underlying operating system/platform through a single<br>
API.<br>
<br>
- Out of the box compilation with OpenSSL 1.0.0 is now supported.<br>
<br>
- Revised installation directory scheme in order to be more compliant with<br>
the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and derived file system standards.<br>
<br>
- Added data dictionary including private ASTM tags from DICONDE (Digital<br>
Imaging and Communication in Nondestructive Evaluation) standard.<br>
<br>
- The DICOM data dictionary as well as the list of SOP classes and transfer<br>
syntaxes have been re-worked based on the latest edition of the DICOM<br>
standard plus all additionally approved supplements and correction<br>
proposals (as of 2010-11-30). Please note that there have been minor<br>
name changes!<br>
<br>
- Many bug fixes and minor improvements as usual - see the more than 12,000<br>
lines long CHANGES.360 file for more details.<br>
<br>
The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk" target="_blank">http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk</a> or <a href="http://www.dcmtk.org/" target="_blank">http://www.dcmtk.org/</a><br>
<br>
Thank you for your contribution!<br>
<br>
Greetings from Oldenburg,<br>
Jörg, Marco, Michael and Uli<br>
<br>
P.S: Enjoy :-)<br><font color="#888888">
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-- <br>
OFFIS DICOM Team, Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany<br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:dicom@offis.de" target="_blank">dicom@offis.de</a>, URL: <a href="http://dicom.offis.de" target="_blank">http://dicom.offis.de</a><br>
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