[vtkusers] vtk and lot of dicom series

[Xiaofeng Z]

I'm experiencing very slow DCOM series load as well.  Hope someone will offer a good suggestion?

 

Do you use a seperate thread for each series and try to load the serieses in parallel?

Xiaofeng



 
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:22:53 -0500
> From: jmrbcu at gmail.com
> To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: [vtkusers] vtk and lot of dicom series
> 
> hi folks, I am using vtk to display dicom image series. I am using
> python and pyqt4 in linux. I have noticed that when I load for at
> least 5 series of 200 MR images each one, my application get VERY
> slow. I am using vtkGDCMImageReader and load every serie within a
> vtkImageData for example this way:
> 
> reader = vtkgdcm.vtkGDCMImageReader()
> reader.SetFileNames(to_vtk_string_array(serie1))
> reader.Update()
> 
> I repeat this step in a thread for every serie and when it is loaded I
> send a signal for display it with vtkImageViewer2 (could be an
> vtkImageColorViewer from gdcm too)
> 
> why is that, which is the recommended way to load and display a lot of
> dicom image series?
> 
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