[Insight-developers] DCMTK Questions

[Bill Lorensen]

Kent,

1) You could use the approach we did for VtkGlue and
LevelSetsv4Visualization. Make the moduale optional. If the user
enables it, then use the cmake Find mechanism to locate dcmtk. This
permits a superbuild in the furture, but also allows applications to
point to their own dcmtk. I don't think we should include DCMTK in the
ITK source distribution.

2) I would keep a DCMTKSeriesFileNames.It gives ultimate flexibility
for file selection.

Bill

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Williams, Norman K
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> Hans has asked me to work on finishing Alexandre Gouaillard's work on the
> DCMTK ImageIO.
>
> Today I've been trying to move his work from his own github repository
> into a gerrit topic on the current branch.  There are a number of issues
> that this raises.
>
> 1. Hans suggested using a CMake ExternalProject to build DCMTK instead of
> what Alex did, which is to introduce the DCMTK included in the CTK project
> as a git module.  For one thing, that version of DCMTK won't compile with
> Clang.
>
> I don't see a clean way to grab and build DCMTK within the current ITK
> framework at all.  What's done everywhere else is that there's a
> SuperBuild or MetaBuild, which builds all of a project's prerequisites as
> ExternalProjects, and then builds the project itself as an
> ExternalProject, configuring it with ITK_DIR, VTK_DIR etc so that it finds
> the prerequisites.
>
> Could that be something that will be part of the ITK build process? Or are
> we going to incorporate some sort of snapshot of DCMTK in
> Modules/ThirdParty?
>
> 2. DCMTK can read a DICOM directory directly, meaning that it wouldn't be
> necessary to use an ImageSeriesReader to read dicom datasets.  Should I
> stick with creating a DCMTKSeriesFileNames?
>
> That feels rather clumsy, but it raises the issue of trying to choose
> which image in a multi-series DicomDirectory to load.
>
> --
> Kent Williams norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu
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