Gdcm Home Page
Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
Dicom medical files.
GDCMstands 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 (including various encoding like jpeg or RLE).
- 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.html)
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,
- the Dicom media storage formats,
- ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.
What gdcm still misses
Among all the features of the
dicom part 5
gdcm doesn't implement (yet?)
- the integration of (optional) overlays on image.