[Ctk-developers] CTK Dashboard: A DICOM data collection for testing ?

Julien Finet julien.finet at kitware.com
Mon Apr 12 18:04:23 UTC 2010 

We would be happy to host all the data on MIDAS.
julien.
----- Original message -----
> That sound wonderful!
>
> Also, experience tell me that having sample images from multiple scanners
> (different ages or versions) from multiple vendors is useful.  Even though
> everyone uses the DICOM standard, sometimes people utilize different
> combinations of features from the standard.  (This is a nice way of saying not
> everyone interprets the standard in compatible fashions.)  So having lots of
> variations is helpful in ferreting out potential problems during testing.  Does
> anyone have such a collection?  If not, I can ask Steve Moore when he gets back
> if some of the data collected during the IHE Connectathons could be used.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ctk-developers-bounces at commontk.org
> [mailto:ctk-developers-bounces at commontk.org] On Behalf Of Bill Lorensen Sent:
> Monday, April 12, 2010 10:20 AM To: Steve Pieper
> Cc: ctk-developers at commontk.org
> Subject: Re: [Ctk-developers] CTK Dashboard: A DICOM data collection for testing
> ?
>
> Folks,
>
> I have a set of 6 dicom series that scan the same phantom in six
> different directions. I'll be happy to contribute these. They were
> created a few years ago at GE Research as part of our NA-MIC work.
> They are useful to see if your code properly handles the direction
> cosines contained in the dicom header.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luis -
> >
> > Here are some sharable example dicom files that we have been using to test
> > the indexer:
> >
> > http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:Dicom-database-examples-2010-03-09.zip
> >
> > (note this also includes some non-dicom files - but this is good for
> > testing!).
> >
> > It would be great for ctest to automatically grab these files from a URL and
> > put them in a local cache for testing purposes.  We could either use the
> > existing wiki URL or move them to midas...
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > p.s.
> > There's some discussion of the indexer here for background:
> >
> > http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/DICOM:Database
> >
> >
> > p.p.s. thanks, Luis, for being the voice of code quality!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr/9/10 10:45 AM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Marco,
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for taking on the task of improving code quality.
> > >
> > >
> > > Here are a couple of ideas:
> > >
> > > 1) In IGSTK we included a couple of DICOM files in the
> > >        source code repository itself in order to provide testing
> > >        of basic functionalities.  This is  OK for "Unit-Testing".
> > >        (and has to be limited to a couple of slices, since you
> > >        don't want a source code repository to carry more than
> > >        10% of data.
> > >
> > >        This simple data, however, insufficient for "Acceptance-Tests"
> > >        (that is, tests that verify the code under realistic conditions
> > >        from the point of view of a final user).
> > >
> > > so
> > >
> > > 2) We could host a set of realistic DICOM series in the MIDAS
> > >        server, and setup CMake to download them into testing
> > >        machines as part of the superbuild. It will be important to
> > >        include in that collection, a set of "bad" datasets that exercise
> > >        error conditions in the code.
> > >
> > >        That is, we want to include DICOM images that are not compliant,
> > >        and we want to verify that the code rejects them accordingly.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does DMTK has a data-testing collection that we could use ?
> > >
> > > and if so, it is redistributable ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >        Luis
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Marco Nolden
> > > <m.nolden at dkfz-heidelberg.de>  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 04/09/2010 04:21 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The dubious honor of being the WCFOD:
> > > >
> > > >                              Worst Code-Covered File of the Day
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://my.cdash.org/viewCoverage.php?buildid=58100
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > 2nd on that list is ./Libs/DICOM/Core/ctkDICOMIndexer.cxx, the one I
> > > > would
> > > > take care of.. To write a meaningful test the dartclient needs access to
> > > > a
> > > > directory containing dicom images from several different patients,
> > > > studies
> > > > and series. Any ideas how we could provide that? Could the superbuild
> > > > download and extract the sample archive before running the tests?
> > > >
> > > > Best
> > > > Marco
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone cares about adopting this file ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise we will write tests for it today
> > > > under the code-welfare program.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >      Please let me know,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                    Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                              Luis
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> > > > Div. Medical&  Biological Informatics                  Tel: (+49) 6221-42 2325
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