[Insight-developers] DCMTK Questions

Tue May 29 11:33:23 EDT 2012

Hi Kent,

Additionally, with or without "ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK", let's make sure we
can pass the location of DCMTK using DCMTK_DIR.

Thanks
Jc

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you treat dcmtk as we treat vtk then you will not need a
> ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK.
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Williams, Norman K
> <norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> > Whatever we end up doing in ITK, there will be a ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK
> > option.
> >
> >
> > And yes, recent versions of DCMTK work with CLang. I logged the problems
> I
> > ran into in the DCMTK bug tracker.
> >
> > The DCMTK people are close to a new minor version release, which will
> > incorporate all these changes; I believe it's coming in the next few
> > weeks. That might be a good revision to standardize on going forward.
> >
> > On 5/25/12 5:00 PM, "Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin"
> > <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Kent,
> > >From Slicer perspective, independently of the method used to retrieve
> >>DCMTK (git submodule or ExternalProject), if would be great if we could
> >>configure ITKv4 passing our own version of DCMTK by specifying DCMTK_DIR.
> >>
> >>Within CTK, since end of April, a more recent version of DCMTK is used
> >>(Snapshot 2012-02-22). See [1] And looking at the associated DCMTK change
> >>log, some CLang issues have been fixed. [2]
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Jc
> >>
> >>[1] https://github.com/commontk/CTK/commit/70c0a8d
> >>[2]
> >>
> http://git.dcmtk.org/web?p=dcmtk.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES.361;h=d281e817cbd647
> >>479dacb5e972f2d76d75602c25;hb=ae3b946f6e6231
> >>
> >>On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Williams, Norman K
> >><norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>Hans has asked me to work on finishing Alexandre Gouaillard's work on the
> >>DCMTK ImageIO.
> >>
> >>Today I've been trying to move his work from his own github repository
> >>into a gerrit topic on the current branch.  There are a number of issues
> >>that this raises.
> >>
> >>1. Hans suggested using a CMake ExternalProject to build DCMTK instead of
> >>what Alex did, which is to introduce the DCMTK included in the CTK
> project
> >>as a git module.  For one thing, that version of DCMTK won't compile with
> >>Clang.
> >>
> >>I don't see a clean way to grab and build DCMTK within the current ITK
> >>framework at all.  What's done everywhere else is that there's a
> >>SuperBuild or MetaBuild, which builds all of a project's prerequisites as
> >>ExternalProjects, and then builds the project itself as an
> >>ExternalProject, configuring it with ITK_DIR, VTK_DIR etc so that it
> finds
> >>the prerequisites.
> >>
> >>Could that be something that will be part of the ITK build process? Or
> are
> >>we going to incorporate some sort of snapshot of DCMTK in
> >>Modules/ThirdParty?
> >>
> >>2. DCMTK can read a DICOM directory directly, meaning that it wouldn't be
> >>necessary to use an ImageSeriesReader to read dicom datasets.  Should I
> >>stick with creating a DCMTKSeriesFileNames?
> >>
> >>That feels rather clumsy, but it raises the issue of trying to choose
> >>which image in a multi-series DicomDirectory to load.
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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