<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Michel,<div><br></div><div>We support the storage of any image format and have full metadata support for DICOM. Additionally we have a plugin for generating thumbnail images for anything that SimpleITK can read.</div><div><br></div><div>We're currently working on a feature for extracted general metadata from ITK types, but that is not in the master branch at this time.</div></div>
<div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">Thanks,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">Patrick Reynolds</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">Technical Leader</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">Kitware, Inc.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">919 869 8848</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Audette, Michel A. wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Hi Patrick, </div><div><br></div><div>sorry for the delayed questions... Amongst medical image formats, which ones are supported by MIDAS? I assume that DICOM is one of them... What about Minc, Analyze, and the other main formats in the medical image analysis community (i.e.: all of those used by ITK...)?</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes, </div><div><br></div><div>Michel</div><div>Michel Audette, Ph.D.</div><div>Assistant Professor,</div><div>Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,</div><div>Old Dominion University,</div><div>Norfolk, VA.</div><div>________________________________________</div><div>From: Patrick Reynolds [<a href="mailto:patrick.reynolds@kitware.com">patrick.reynolds@kitware.com</a>]</div><div>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:13 PM</div><div>To: Audette, Michel A.</div><div>Cc: <a href="mailto:midas@public.kitware.com">midas@public.kitware.com</a>; Streit, Doug; De Leo, Gianluca</div><div>Subject: Re: [Midas] looking into MIDAS for Old Dominion's Data Management Plan... questions vs MIT DSpace and others</div><div><br></div><div>Michel,</div><div><br></div><div>It's good to hear from you :). I've responded inline.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Patrick Reynolds</div><div>Technical Leader</div><div>Kitware, Inc.</div><div>919 869 8848</div><div><br></div><div>On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Audette, Michel A. wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Midas users,</div><div><br></div><div>I am a former Kitware employee, now at Old Dominion University, and I've been asked to take part in a committee to come up with a Data Management Plan, in compliance with requirements for NSF and NIH proposals. We are looking at a number of competing solutions, all of them apparenty open-source: MIDAS, MIT's DSpace, and Fedora Commons.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone comment on</div><div>1) how these competing options compare to each other, i.e. pros and cons of each?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not terribly familiar with Fedora Commons, but I can comment on Midas vs DSpace. DSpace, as far as I know it is primarily geared to storing published works (books, journal articles, etc.) where Midas aims to be a more general solution to the problem of data sharing and publication. An interesting bit of history is that the original Midas 1.X series was based on DSpace. We still have a lot of similar internal data structures, but our goals and external interfaces have diverged.</div><div><br></div><div>2) in the event that these competing options have different strengths, is it possible to exploit two or more, and exploit their complementarity (i.e.: are these solutions inter-operable?)?</div><div><br></div><div>On this I'm not sure about Fedora Commons or DSpace, but I can say that Midas has a fully-featured RESTful web API that should allow interoperation with virtually any system.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your kind consideration.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel Audette, Ph.D.</div><div>Assistant Professor,</div><div>Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,</div><div>Old Dominion University,</div><div>Norfolk, VA.</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Midas mailing list</div><div>Midas@public.kitware.com<<a href="mailto:Midas@public.kitware.com">mailto:Midas@public.kitware.com</a>></div><div><a href="http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/midas">http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/midas</a></div><div><br></div><div>________________________________</div><div><br></div><div>Spam<<a href="https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=678778918&m=7f6a81657216&t=20120628&c=s">https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=678778918&m=7f6a81657216&t=20120628&c=s</a>></div><div>Not spam<<a href="https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=678778918&m=7f6a81657216&t=20120628&c=n">https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=678778918&m=7f6a81657216&t=20120628&c=n</a>></div><div>Forget previous vote<<a href="https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=678778918&m=7f6a81657216&t=20120628&c=f">https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=678778918&m=7f6a81657216&t=20120628&c=f</a>></div></div></div></span>
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