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14 Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
15 <A HREF="http://medical.nema.org/">Dicom</A> medical files.
17 <B>GDCM</B> stands as a short for "<B>G</B>rass roots
18 <B>D</B>i<B>C</B>o<B>M</B>.
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21 <H2>What gdcm <font color=#00ff00>IS</font></H2>
23 <LI>gdcm implements the
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25 dicom base standard <B>part 5</B></A>
26 that concentrates on image file format.
27 Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
29 <LI>ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
31 <LI>Dicom version 3.0 (including various encodings of jpeg, RLE).
33 <A HREF="ConformanceSummary.html">gdcm conformance summary</A>
35 <LI>Papyrus V2 and V3 file headers are readable; the user will have to use low level
36 accessors if he wants to get the image pixels -sorry-
40 <LI>gdcm is distributed with
41 <A HREF="License.html">Berkeley-like license</A>.
43 <LI>gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++
45 <A HREF="Installation.html#gdcmRequirements">requirements</A>
49 <A HREF="http://public.kitware.com/VTK">VTK</A>
50 shallow wrapper class vtkGdcmReader (refer to
51 <A HREF="VtkGdcm.html">VtkGdcm</A>)
52 to ease the burden of VTK users,
53 <LI>gdcm also comes with
54 <A HREF="html.developper/DoxyPythonComplete.html">gdcmPython</A>
56 <A HREF="http://www.swig.org">SWIG</A>
58 <A HREF="http://www.python.org">Python</A>
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64 <H2>What gdcm is <font color=#ff0000>NOT</font></H2>
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68 dicom base standard <B>part 5</B></A>
69 gdcm does NOT implement any other part of the Dicom base standard
70 (as opposed to other C++ based with open license libraries like
71 <A HREF="http://www.offis.de/projekte/ig/dicom/soft-docs/soft01_d.html">
74 <A HREF="http://www.erl.wustl.edu/DICOM/ctn.html">CTN</A>).
76 In particular <B>gdcm is not aware</B> of:
78 <LI>the Dicom network file exchange protocol (Query/Retrieve),
80 <LI>the Dicom media storage formats (well ... it knows about the DICOMDIR
81 -reading and writing- and its parts PATIENT, STUDY, SERIES, IMAGE)
83 <LI>Print, Verification
85 <LI>ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.
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90 <H2>What gdcm still misses</H2>
92 Among all the features of the
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95 gdcm doesn't implement (yet?)
97 <LI>the integration of (optional) overlays on image.
99 <LI>a support to write files according to the
100 <A HREF="ConformanceSummary.html">various classical Jpeg encodings</A>
101 (only read methods are provided)
103 <LI>a support to deal with JPEG 2000 encodings</A>
106 Gdcm also still needs
108 <LI> an enhanced and simpler API to access the various forms of pixel data
109 (e.g. RGB, GrayLevel, RawData...),
111 <LI> a decent user's guide (currently, only a partial doxygenation is
114 <LI> the python wrappers to be fixed,
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