[Ctk-developers] CTK, color consistency and ICC profiles (and recent color summit)

[David Clunie]

Hi all

I was wondering if any CTK developers had any particularly
interest in color consistency, management and in particular
the use of ICC profiles and color calibrated displays.

Since DICOM images can (though don't often) contain embedded
ICC profiles, and each image may contain a different profile,
to display these side-by-side consistently would require CTK
to take this into account (e.g., like Photoshop does).

Other requirements might include when importing non-DICOM files
like JPEGs, if any ICC profile is embedded in the JPEG bitstream,
it should be accounted for.

Likewise, color images generated in CTK and saved, regardless
of format, should probably be tagged with an appropriate ICC
profile, if the format permits it.

We recently had a summit on the subject, the presentations
and the recordings of which are available at:

http://www.color.org/events/medical/presentations.xalter
http://www.color.org/events/medical/medical_summit_2013.xalter
http://www.color.org/events/medical/medical_summit_2013_abstracts.xalter
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/NewsEvents/WorkshopsConferences/ucm342138.htm

There is also a new ICC Medical Imaging Working Group:

http://www.color.org/groups/medical_imaging_wg.xalter

David

PS. I sent a similar message to the VTK list, so to the extent
that VTK were to implement color management, CTK would presumably
inherit it.