----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposed Template of an entry in this TODO: (Note: Date is the date of registering of first demand.) ------------- Description: Date: Attributed: Details: Comments: ------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Rewrite gdcmDebug so that it works Date: 2004 Dec 07 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Need to fix cygwin + wrong path (passing UNIX path when windows patch expected) Date: 2004 Nov 16 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Need a test for gdcmHeaderHelper (iterating over gdcmData) for instance Date: 2004 Nov 16 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: It used to seg fault when a README file was found ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: gdcmJpeg8 is strictly a copy/paste of gdcmJpeg12.cxx. Date: 2004 Oct 13 Attributed: Details: We should write the code in a common place, then include this 'cxx' file so the define from gdcm_mangle redefine to the proper one. Comments: This will be usefull since I may need in the future a 16bits version of this reading ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Change jpeg 'exit' call to standard c++ exception using the jpeg error handler Date: 2004 Oct 8 Attributed: Details: Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Add kwsys as a subdir somewhere in gdcm Date: 2004 Oct 8 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: ljpeg Date: 2004 Oct 8 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: ljpeg was rip from medcon and not the official one. medcon tried to optimised function using MACRO (doh!), so it make its very unreadable and very hard to fix warnings. Should go back to official source, copy proper copyright and fix warnings on dashboard 13/10: update apparently no dicom toolkit use this lib as it is too buggy. We should use the ls-patch for ijg instead. Thus we can safely get rid of that lib. 14/10: PHILIPS_Gyroscan-12-MONO2-Jpeg_Lossless.dcm prove that I was right the old Cornwell lib is buggy and does not read anything. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Extent reading support Date: 2004 Oct 8 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: All ITK/VTK readers support selecting extent. gdcm should support selecting extent before being inserted into ITK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Generate new UID each time we write DICOM Date: 2004 Oct 8 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: According to DICOM ref a new UID should be created each we write a DICOM images. I guess it should be an option so that we can still use md5sum to check dicom file. The proposed way was: http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/pipermail/dcmlib/2004-September/000611.html Bah, comme Win32 pose encore pb: echo "gdcm" | od -b 0000000 147 144 143 155 012 et si on prenait: radical + 147.144.143.155 + IP + time() ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: gdcmDicomDir and SQItem creation Date: 2004 Nov 16 Attributed: Details: DicomDir creates some SQItem (by new). After that, it creates the corresponding DicomDirPatient, etc. using the content of the SQItem (the content is composed with some DocEntry's that can't be destroyed). So, if the SQItem is deleted, then it's content is deleted to. But the DicomDirPatient, etc. use the content of the SQItem. Then, the SQItem can't be deleted, and when have memory leaks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: [BUG] Better handling of unfound Dicom dictionary. When gdcm doesn't find the Dicom dictionary (because it's path to the directory of dictionary is uncorrect, either because the install relative layout was broken after file moves or because the environnement variable GDCM_DICT_PATH is unpropely set), gdcm will: 1/ print a warning 2/ throw an exception (that is internaly UNcatched by gdcm) that in most cases provoques the caller application to exit uncleanly (uncatched excpetions in fine call abort() ). Additionaly on Win32 the warning print isn't displayed because exiting occurs prior to cerr or cout is flushed properly. Date: 2004 Oct 15 Attributed: Details: fixes (from dirty to clean) 1/ force Win32 to flush it's buffer so at least the user gets some reason why it's application exited (when called in command environement). Note: it looks like the "cerr << flush" fails. Sigh. 2/ within gdcm catch the exception, display a decent warning, and return to caller. 3/ see the comment below on how to enhance the API and fix things really cleanly. Comments: ENH proposal: The caller migth not be aware of the path to the dictionaries on invocation of gdcm (think this path is set by the Interface because the caller wants to skip the default gdcm dictionary in order to provide his own ones e.g. another language based one). Hence, gdcm should postpone the parsing of the default dictionary instead of doing it on library entry. This would enable two things: - It would give a chance to the caller to set the path to the dictionaries he whishes to use, through a call to newly created DictSet::SetDictionaryPath( string ). - It would avoid the burden of using the GDCM_DICT_PATH environnement variable and enable GDCM CONTROL FROM WITHIN THE API. Optionaly, if the caller didn't use the API to provide his prefered path, gdcm could still default to GDCM_DICT_PATH... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: vtk/vtkGdcmReader doesn't positionate the normal to the image Date: 2004 Oct 1 Attributed: Details: vtkGdcmReader::CheckFileCoherence() sets the DataOrigin[i] but doesn't set the plane (image seen in 3D) normal (is it possible any how). This plane normal could be extracted from the "orientation" info of the gdcmHeader ( refer to grep "Orientation" Dicts/dicomV3.dic). Problem exhibiting this defect: cine loop on a pile of images whose Origin is correct, but whose normal is not set will plainly suck ! Comments: * vtkGdcmReader inherits from vtkImageReader which aggregates a vtkTranform. vtkGdcmReader could store (when the user requires it, see below) the origin/normal taken from the Dicom Header within this vtkTransform (looks like a natural place to store this spacial information). * Both settings of the origin and/OR the normal of the plane (image) should be an option defined with a flag (On/Off) in the vtkGdcmReader... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Fix the Python wrappers Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: no Details: Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: clean up gdcmFile/gdcmHeader relationship Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Details: * simplify the API for the user (no need to call GetImageData() before calling Write(). * avoid memory leaks with with Pixel_Data. Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: remove all autotools references Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: no Details: Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: introduce namespace "gdcm" Date: 2004 Jul 30 Attributed: Details: Comments: 1/ Problem: using enum with name like 'Unknow' on .Net, or LP on cygwin causes problems. 2/ Question: when introducing the namespace, should we remove the gdcm prefix from classes or keep it ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: complete the doxygen Documentation Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Details: Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: test the private dictionary part. Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Details: Comments: * Frog: where can we obtain such a private/dictionary and the corresponding Dicom file ? Any examples on-line ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: fix definitively the memory leaks problems. Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Details: Comments: There is a nightly dashboard that run valgrind every night (zorglub | GDCM-Linux-g++) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: test gdcm on a big endian OS. Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Details: Comments: There is a nightly dashboard that run on MacOSX each nite (midworld.kitwarein | GDCM-DarwinG5-g++ ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: More tests ! Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Details: * an example of new test could be to clone a Dicom image by copying gdcmDocEntry one after the other Comments: * look at traversal used in Example/FlatHashTablePrint.cxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: revoir la gestion des resources, win32 permet d'inclure des fichiers texte (=dicomV3.dic) dans une dll ou quelquechose du genre. Date: 2004 Sep 24 Attributed: Mathieu Details: Comments: * Frog: no comprendo !? De plus est-ce portable ? * To improve load time it could be usefull to have the dictionary directly in 'c++' code or in a more binary format. * This will also solve some issues where /dummy/ user did nor set GDCM_DICT_PATH properly neither 'make install' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Convert the C-like IO to C++ IO: Date: 2004 Jul 30 Attributed: Details: remove all the C-oriented IO references like FILE*, fread... and replace them with the C++ fstream notation. Provide overload of operators << and >> for any gdcm class using file IO. Comments: * Question: the underlying jpeg libraries (written in C) use the FILE* notation. Is there a way to still use fstream in gdcm, and build or pass the proper FILE* to jpeg libs ? * Binary IO references are available at http://www.angelfire.com/country/aldev0/cpphowto/cpp_BinaryFileIO.html * The internal API should be rewritten so that gdcm speaking to jpeg lib is done with stream/string and not directly opened FILE* * No stdio.h anymore anywhere tolerated ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: generate methods based on VM. Date: 2004 Jul 30 Attributed: Details: * cmake should parse le DICOM dictionary to generate methods like gdcm???::SetImagePosition(int, int) { //generated content do not edit ... } gdcm???::SetImageNumber(int) { //generated content do not edit ... } Comments: * Regrain: a dicom dictionary entry name is NOT UNIQUE [this means two tags=(group, element) can share the same name]. What should the wrapper do in such a case !? * Frog: what does VM stand for ? * VM = Value Multiplicity ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Add information on supported imagers (constructor/model) Date: 2004 9 7 Attributed: Details: in order to promote gdcm make a list (on the web pages) of images successfully parsed based on a constructor/model ordering Comments: * frog: gdcmData only lists pathological images. How to collect the ones gdcm works smoothly with (hopefully gdcmData is a small subset of what we would like). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Add a GetVersion() global function. Date: 2003 july 7 Attributed: Details: This is to be used for version assertion with gdcmPython Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * vtk/vtkGdcmHeader.cxx: if speed becomes a concern some changes can be made at the cost of memory consumption (refer to header of vtk/vtkGdcmHeader.cxx) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * gdcmElValSet::SetElValueLengthByNumber IMNSHO should be trashed. It's only purpose is a onliner substitute to calling GetElValueByNumber and then SetLength. This only obfuscates the caller code more than clarifying it. Besides the definition of gdcmElValSet::SetElValueLengthByNumber itself it quite poor since it is a almost exact copy of gdcmElValSet::GetElValueByNumber except for the returned code. gdcmHeader::SetPubElValLengthByNumber (which is based on gdcmElValSet::SetElValueLengthByNumber) is used nowhere... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fix the bug in Test/bug1.cxx (see first comment line): Win32 only. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * All (or at least many of) the methods of gdcmHeader whose only arguments are an ElValue* (e.g. FindLength, FindVR, LoadElementValue...) can be moved away to ElValue class on condition of transmitting the gdcmHeader.fp attribute. This change should be considered since it would allow those method to avoid artificial calls to ElValue::GetElement(), ElValue::GetVR()... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Eat leading_trailing_whitespace (found in python/gdcmPython/gdcmi) should be used when parsing the dictionary in C++ ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Group length is not a unique tag in a file. Hence avoid putting it in the element values dictionary without doing something smarter (say, instead of storing the length store the group and the length so we can related a length to a group). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * GetPubElValByNumber doit faire la difference entre chaine vide et chaine pas touve''. Eventuellement raiser une exception ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * gdcmHeader::LoadElements only loads the element whose length is below the specified size. When accessing the value of such an element the content is unfound ! Find a decent way of loading the value on explicit demand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * JPR: fournir une method qui ne fait que lire les elements passes en arguments sous forme d'une liste. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * JPR: gdcmHeader::CheckSwap() dans le cas ACR pas propre, degager tout de suite si on a deduit que c'en est pas... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * python /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/DaVaW/demo/dvwDcmReader.py and load image /home/frog/cvs/DCMlib/Data/CT-MONO2-16-ankle.dcm will yield wrong coloring scheme as opposed to affim filein=/home/frog/cvs/DCMlib/Data/CT-MONO2-16-ankle.dcm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * gdcmFile should implement the following API: gdcmFile WriteDicom; WriteDicom.SetFileName("MyDicomFile.dcm"); string * AllTags = gdcmHeader.GetDcmTagNames(); WriteDicom.SetDcmTag(AllTags[5], "253"); WriteDicom.SetDcmTag("Patient Name", "bozo"); WriteDicom.SetDcmTag("Patient Name", "bozo"); WriteDicom.SetImageData(Image); WriteDicom.Write(); Anonymize(ostream& output) { a = gdcmFile("toto1"); a.SetPubValueByName("Patient Name", ""); a.SetPubValueByName("Date", ""); a.SetPubValueByName("Study Date", ""); a.write(output); } -----------------------------------------------------------------------------