ITK/Release 4/DICOM/Meeting 2011.09.01 Roadmap

Agenda

1. 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?