[Ctk-developers] new dicom interface

[Steve Pieper]

Hello from the CTK hackfest in London! [1]

For a while now several of groups have been working on improving the dicom
browser in CTK (the one used in the Slicer DICOM module) to make it more
consistent with clinical systems and to make it easier to customize.  Work
really got going at the last hackfest at Queens in Kingston [2] where a
design was worked out that would help with a number of longstanding issues
faced in SlicerRT [for example, 3] and some issues intrinsic to the way the
old DICOM tree view was implemented [4].

After a lot of work at the CTK level by Adreas Fetzer and Marco Nolden of
DKFZ and Csaba Pinter and Andras Lasso of Queens we now have a new
interface to address these issues.  Plus Alireza Mehrtash of BWH has added
a DICOM header browser option to address a longstanding missing feature of
slicer4 [5].  These have now been integrated into the slicer trunk [6] and
the new interface is documented on the nightly section of the wiki [7].

Of course this big of a change may take a little time to settle out, so
please let us know if you see build or run time issues.  Suggestions are
welcome too.

Cheers from jolly old England,
Steve


[1] http://www.commontk.org/index.php/CTK-Hackfest-Nov-2013

[2]
http://www.commontk.org/index.php/CTK-Hackfest-May-2013#DICOM_Database_and_Networking

[3] http://na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2828

[4] http://na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=3106

[5] http://na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=1838

[6] http://viewvc.slicer.org/viewvc.cgi/Slicer4?view=revision&revision=22689

[7]
http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/4.3/Modules/DICOM
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