[Insight-developers] DCMTK Questions

Tue May 29 11:28:05 EDT 2012

If you treat dcmtk as we treat vtk then you will not need a
ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK.

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Williams, Norman K
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> Whatever we end up doing in ITK, there will be a ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK
> option.
>
>
> And yes, recent versions of DCMTK work with CLang. I logged the problems I
> ran into in the DCMTK bug tracker.
>
> The DCMTK people are close to a new minor version release, which will
> incorporate all these changes; I believe it's coming in the next few
> weeks. That might be a good revision to standardize on going forward.
>
> On 5/25/12 5:00 PM, "Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin"
> <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Kent,
> >From Slicer perspective, independently of the method used to retrieve
>>DCMTK (git submodule or ExternalProject), if would be great if we could
>>configure ITKv4 passing our own version of DCMTK by specifying DCMTK_DIR.
>>
>>Within CTK, since end of April, a more recent version of DCMTK is used
>>(Snapshot 2012-02-22). See [1] And looking at the associated DCMTK change
>>log, some CLang issues have been fixed. [2]
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>Jc
>>
>>[1] https://github.com/commontk/CTK/commit/70c0a8d
>>[2]
>>http://git.dcmtk.org/web?p=dcmtk.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES.361;h=d281e817cbd647
>>479dacb5e972f2d76d75602c25;hb=ae3b946f6e6231
>>
>>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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