[Insight-users] DICOM viewer using itk and vtk

[John Drescher]

> I'm dealing with dicom to make a work to finish my graduation course, on
> this work i need to make a viewer dicom with some functions like open a .dcm
> and display a dicom image, show the position of the cursor, create a zoom,
> show the tags and others simple functions that every viewer should to have.
> And the first thing i was trying was to make was to display a dicom image.
>

I do not think the intermediate step of converting your dicom
series/images to jpeg serves any good purpose.

I would start by looking at a few of the VTK examples.

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx#Working_with_Images

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOM

John