[Insight-users] GDCMSeriesFileNames.cxx "No Series were found" error help?

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi C G,

Please try the following:

1) Create a new empty directory

2) Copy in that new directory one
    (and only one) of the files from
    the directory that currently you
    can not read.

3) Attempt to read that new directory
    with the same code.

4) If that works, continue adding
    files to the new directory from the
    failing directory, and at each addition
    try reading the new directory again
    with your code

5) Do (4) until it fails

6) When it fails, inspect that last added
    file with the gdcm tools:

                      * gdcminfo
                      * gdcmdump



  Please let us know what you find,


      Thanks


           Luis


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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:26 PM, C G <luckylakeway at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi anyone, I am attempting to read in DICOMs and I am getting the warning
> from itkGDCMSeriesFileNames.cxx "No Series were found," which of course
> creates an error shortly thereafter.  I have ITK and InsightApplications
> 3.10.0.
>
> my function code up to the problem point is below.  this code works for one
> dicom series I have, but not for another, and I cannot figure out why:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     typedef  itk::ImageSeriesReader< IImageType3d > ReaderType;
>     typedef itk::GDCMImageIO  ImageIOType;
>     typedef itk::GDCMSeriesFileNames NamesGeneratorType;
>
>     ReaderType::Pointer myreader = ReaderType::New();
>     ImageIOType::Pointer mydicomIO = ImageIOType::New();
>     myreader-> SetImageIO(mydicomIO);
>     NamesGeneratorType::Pointer mynameGenerator =
> NamesGeneratorType::New();
>     //mynameGenerator->SetUseSeriesDetails(true); //using vs not using this
> does not make a difference it seems
>     mynameGenerator->SetInputDirectory(directory);
>
>     typedef std::vector<std::string> SeriesIdContainer;
>     const SeriesIdContainer & seriesUID = mynameGenerator->GetSeriesUIDs();
> //THIS LINE GENERATES THE WARNING
>     std::string seriesIdentifier;
>     seriesIdentifier = seriesUID.begin()->c_str(); //since i have no series
> UID this line kills the program
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> the GetSeriesUIDs function (where I'm failing to get info from my dicom) in
> the GDCMSeriesFileNames.cxx file contains:
>     gdcm::FileList *flist = m_SerieHelper->GetFirstSingleSerieUIDFileSet();
> which is returning a null pointer.
>
> this function is, in turn, from the gdcmSerieHelper class:
>     FileList *SerieHelper::GetFirstSingleSerieUIDFileSet()
>     {
>        ItFileSetHt = SingleSerieUIDFileSetHT.begin();
>        ........
>
> SingleSerieUIDFileSetHT is defined as
>    typedef std::map<std::string, FileList *> SingleSerieUIDFileSetmap;
>    SingleSerieUIDFileSetmap SingleSerieUIDFileSetHT;
>
>
> *****
> I can't seem to go any deeper into the code than that without having no
> idea what I'm looking at anymore.  The weird issue is that this code WORKS
> in one case, fails in another.
>
> Both folders contain 1 series each, with many individual slice files.  Both
> do have a value for the key pair 0020,000E (Series Instance UID), which is
> the one that the GetSeriesUIDs function actually grabs (I viewed both image
> sets in DicomWorks - also that key value does appear to be the same for all
> slices so that shouldn't be the problem).  Both series are numerically
> ordered, with no DIRFILE or DICOMDIR files anywhere (if that makes a
> difference...).
>
> My code is based on the example code in the ITK guide and I don't see any
> big discrepancies with it.  It works fine for the one dicom series and I
> can't see what the big difference is between these two image sets,
> particularly since the key I think it wants appears to be present and valid
> for both image sets.
>
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
> -courtenay
>
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