Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
<A HREF="http://medical.nema.org/">Dicom</A> medical files.
<BR>
-<B>GDCM</B>stands as a short for "<B>G</B>rass roots
+<B>GDCM</B> stands as a short for "<B>G</B>rass roots
<B>D</B>i<B>C</B>o<B>M</B>.
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<UL>
<LI>ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
</LI>
- <LI>Dicom version 3 (including various encoding like jpeg or RLE).
+ <LI>Dicom version 3.0 (including various encodings of jpeg, RLE).
+ Please refer to
+ <A HREF="ConformanceSummary.html">gdcm conformance summary</A>
+ for more details.
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</LI>
<LI>gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++
(refer to
- <A HREF="html.developper/DoxyInstallation.html#DoxyRequirements">
- requirements</A>
+ <A HREF="Installation.html#gdcmRequirements">requirements</A>
for details).
</LI>
<LI>gdcm comes with a
<A HREF="http://public.kitware.com/VTK">VTK</A>
shallow wrapper class vtkGdcmReader (refer to
- <A HREF="">VtkGdcm.html</A>)
+ <A HREF="VtkGdcm.html">VtkGdcm</A>)
to ease the burden of VTK users,
<LI>gdcm also comes with
<A HREF="html.developper/DoxyPythonComplete.html">gdcmPython</A>
<BR>
In particular <B>gdcm is not aware</B> of:
<UL>
-<LI>the Dicom network file exchange protocol,
+<LI>the Dicom network file exchange protocol (Query/Retrieve),
</LI>
<LI>the Dicom media storage formats,
</LI>
+<LI>Print, Verification
+</LI>
<LI>ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.
</LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI>the integration of (optional) overlays on image.
</LI>
+ <LI>a more complete supports of the
+ <A HREF="ConformanceSummary.html">various Jpeg encodings</A>
+ </LI>
+</UL>
+Gdcm also still needs
+<UL>
+<LI> an enhanced and simpler API to access the various forms of pixel data
+ (e.g. RGB, GrayLevel, RawData...),
+</LI>
+<LI> a decent user's guide (currently, only a partial doxygenation is
+ available),
+</LI>
+<LI> the python wrappers to be fixed,
+</LI>
+<LI> a simple
+ <A HREF="http://www.wxwindows.org/">wxWidgets</A>
+ Dicom file editor.
+</LI>
+</UL>
</UL>
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