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Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
Dicom medical files.
GDCM stands as a short for "Grass roots
DiCoM.
What gdcm IS
- gdcm implements the
dicom base standard part 5
that concentrates on image file format.
Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
- ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
- Dicom version 3.0 (including various encodings of jpeg, RLE).
Please refer to
gdcm conformance summary
for more details.
- gdcm is distributed with
Berkeley-like license.
- gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++
(refer to
requirements
for details).
- gdcm comes with a
VTK
shallow wrapper class vtkGdcmReader (refer to
VtkGdcm)
to ease the burden of VTK users,
- gdcm also comes with
gdcmPython
it's
SWIG
generated
Python
wrappers.
What gdcm is NOT
Except for
dicom base standard part 5
gdcm does NOT implement any other part of the Dicom base standard
(as opposed to other C++ based with open license libraries like
DCMTK .
or
CTN).
In particular gdcm is not aware of:
- the Dicom network file exchange protocol (Query/Retrieve),
- the Dicom media storage formats,
- Print, Verification
- ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.
What gdcm still misses
Among all the features of the
dicom part 5
gdcm doesn't implement (yet?)
Gdcm also still needs
- an enhanced and simpler API to access the various forms of pixel data
(e.g. RGB, GrayLevel, RawData...),
- a decent user's guide (currently, only a partial doxygenation is
available),
- the python wrappers to be fixed,
- a simple wxWdiget Dicom file editor.