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+
+
Gdcm News
+
+
+
+
+We know the following are missing; don't loose time looking for them ...
+We know they could be helpfull. We shall add them some day.
+Any contribution is welcome.
+
+- Decoders
+
+ - gdcm doesn't read yet JPEG-LS encoded files.
+
+ We said 'JPEG-LS', not Lossless Jpeg ...
+ [JPEG-LS is the basis for new lossless/near-lossless compression
+ standard for continuous-tone images intended for JPEG2000.
+ The standard is based on the LOCO-I algorithm
+ (LOw COmplexity LOssless COmpression for Images)
+ developed at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories]
+
+ - gdcm doesn't read yet JPEG2000 encoded files.
+
+ But we are working on it.
+
+ - gdcm doesn't read yet MPEG2 encoded files.
+
+ But we are working on it.
+
+
+ - Reader
+
+ - Allow user to tell gdcm::Document constructor he just wants
+ to load a given list of DocEntries
+ (to save CPU time and RAM space)
+
- Allow 'frame by frame' reading (should be helpfull for huge
+ multiframe images)
+
- Allow subvolume selection / frames selection before reading.
+
- Expose Read/Decompression mechanisms to allow user getting
+ information from DICOMDIR
-or from his own Data Base-
+ and reading his images without parsing
+ the header, one more time.
+
+ - Writer
+
+ - Allow user to tell the Writer he doesn't want to write down
+ SeqEntry (if any)
+
- Allow user to tell the Writer he doesn't want to write down
+ Shadow groups (if any)
+
- Allow user to tell the Writer which compression mode he wants
+ (Right now, no one is available)
+ - Allow user to tell the Writer he wants to split a
+ Multiframe image into a serie of
+ Single frame images.
+
- Allow user to tell the Writer he wants to agregate a
+ Serie of Single frame images into a
+ Multiframe image.
+
+ - Reader / Writer
+
+ - Full Icon Image management (Read and Write)
+
- Full Overlays management (Read and Write)
+ both for 'ACR-NEMA style' (using groups 0x6000
+ and nexts) and 'DICOM V3 style' (using Sequences)
+
+ - DICOMDIR
+
+ - DICOMDIR full management (not limited to
+ PATIENT/STUDY/SERIE/IMAGE)
+
- Allow user to add an entry (belonging to the file header Dicom
+ entries)to the default entry list, before
+ making a DICOMDIR from a root directory
+
- Allow user to add an entry of his owns (for instance an Icon
+ to each image, or to each Serie).
+
+ - SerieHelper
+
+
+ - An accurate SerieHelper
+ Right now SerieHelper only works on 'bona fide Series', and
+ breaks on wrongly forged Series.
+ We are still looking for any heuristics...
+ - A SerieHelper that would use the DICOMDIR (if any)
+ instead of parsing all the files within the Root Directory
+
+ - Other
+
+ - 16-bits-LUT full Management
+
- User friendly management of Rescale Slope and
+ Rescale Intercept
+
- Allow parsing the Shadow groups against a user supplied
+ private Dicom Dictionary (pfff!...)
+
+
@@ -17,46 +113,155 @@
Current Version
+
- - Final check of the jpeg sub-library: all 'classical' jpeg
- compressed Dicom files can be read
- All the previously gdcm-breaker images are now readable
- gdcm doesn't read yet JPEG-LS and JPEG2000 encoded files.
- - Use of namespace : all the methods formerly called
- className::gdcmXxx() are now called className::Xxx()
-
- Removal of accessors GetXxxByname, SetXxxByname
- and GetXxxByNumber, SetXxxByNumber
- replaced by GetXxx, SetXxx
-
- a gdcm::Document is now specialized in gdcm::DicomDir and gdcm::File
-
- A huge number of memory leaks removed
-
- Improvement of write process
+
- State of the art
+
+
+
- New Features
+
+ - Both vtkgdcmViewer and vtkgdcmViewer2
+ are available to allow easy displaying of single/multiframe
+ GreyLevel/RGB/PaletteColor images
+
- DICOMDIR anonymiser (Load and Noload mode)
+
- User is now allowed to tell gdcm::Document constructor
+ he doesn't want to deal with SeqEntry
+ (every time it's possible)
and/or he doesn't
+ want to deal with Shadow groups (every time it's
+ possible)
+ use :
+ gdcm::File *f = new gdcm::File();
+ f->SetLoadMode(NO_SEQ | NO_SHADOW);
+ f->Load(fileName);
+
+ instead of :
+
+ gdcm::File *f = new gdcm::File(fileName);
+ (old style still available)
+
+ - User is now allowed to tell gdcm::DicomDir constructor
+ he doesn't want to deal with SeqEntry
+ (every time it's possible)
and/or he doesn't
+ want to deal with Shadow groups (every time it's
+ possible)
+ use :
+ gdcm::DicomDir *dcmdir = new gdcm::DicomDir( );
+ dcmdir->SetParseDir(true);
+ dcmdir->SetLoadMode(NO_SEQ | NO_SHADOW);
+ dcmdir->Load(dirName);
+
+ instead of :
+
+ gdcm::DicomDir *dcmdir = new gdcm::DicomDir(dirName, true);
+ (old style still available)
+ -
+
+
+ - Bug fixes
+
+ - The difference between MONOCHROME1 (low values = bright,
+ high values = dark) and MONOCHROME2 (low values = dark,
+ high values = bright) is now taken into account.
+ It's no longer up to the user to change the pixels value
+ - Writing a 'True Dicom' image after reading an ACR-NEMA image
+ does not request any longer from the user to build up
+ 'manually' the Meta Elements group (Ox0002)
+
- Old '24 Bits' ACR-NEMA are now correctly re-written
+ in DICOM V3 mode.
+
- Element 0x0000 of Shadow groups is always forced to be a
+ ValEntry and its VR is forced to UL
+
-
+
+
+ - A.P.I. breaking modifications (since previous version : 1.0)
+
+ - NEVER more API breaking modifications !!!
+
+
+
+ - Known bugs
+
+ - Use of Implicit Value Representation writting mode may
+ causes troubles, when there are some SQ belonging to a
+ Shadow Group.
+ Better you use Explicit Value Representation writting mode ...
+
+
-
-
-For people who get this new release :
-
-We consider now that :
-- any dicom related file is a gdcm::Document.
-- a gdcm::Document can be :
- - a gdcm::File, if it contains pixel data,
- - a gdcm::DicomDir, if it contains only informations
- on the files in a given directory
-- in a gdcm::Document, there are gdcm::DocEntry, that can be :
- - gdcm::ValEntry (whose value is std::string representable
- i.e. character values, or integers),
- - gdcm::BinEntry (whose value is not std::string representable
- i.e. color palettes, overlays, icons , ...)
- - gdcm::Sequence (no proper 'value', but a set of gdcm::SQItems,
- composed of a set of gdc::DocEntry, recursively)
-- in a gdcm::DicomDir, we only deal, hierachically, with :
- - gdcmPatient
- - gdcmStudy
- - gdcmSerie
- - gdcmImage
-
+
+
+
+
+ - State of the art
+
+
+
+
- A.P.I. breaking modifications (since previous version : 0.6)
+
+ - Use of namespace : all the methods formerly named
+ className::gdcmXxx() are now named className::Xxx()
+
End user will have to call them as gdcm::className::Xxx()
+ - a gdcm::Document is now specialized in :
+
+ - gdcm::DicomDir
+
- gdcm::File
+
+ - a gdcm::DicomElementSet is composed of a set of
+ gdcm::DicomDocEntry
+
- a gdcm::DicomDocEntry can be :
+
+ - a gdcm::ContentEntry, specialized in :
+
+ - gdcm::ValEntry
+
- gdcm::BinEntry (no longer a specialization of
+ gdcm::ValEntry)
+
+ - a gdcm::SeqEntry
+
+ - Removal of useless accessors GetXxxByname, SetXxxByname
+
- Renaming of accessors GetXxxByNumber, SetXxxByNumber
+ as follow :
+
+ - GetEntryByNumber
+
+ --> GetEntryValue
+
- GetEntryLengthByNumber --> GetEntryLength
+
- GetEntryOffsetByNumber --> GetEntryOffset
+
- GetEntryVRByNumber
+ --> GetEntryVR
+
-
+
- GetDocEntryByNumber
+ --> GetDocEntry
+
- GetValEntryByNumber
+ --> GetValEntry
+
- GetBinEntryByNumber
+ --> GetBinEntry
+
- GetSeqEntryByNumber
+ --> GetSeqEntry
+
+
+
@@ -66,28 +271,40 @@ We consider now that :
This version will be used by Insight Tool Kit
- (ITK 1.10) at the beginning of 2005.
+ (ITK 2.0) at the beginning of 2005.
It's not yet packaged ...
+ - User Documentation"
+
- Developper Documentation"
- The new gdcmDocument class is a parent class of
gdcmHeader class and gdcmDicomDir class.
- Massive modifications in the Class Diagram :
- - Entries (gdcmEntry) are now separated into
- ValEntry and SeqEntry (whose VR =
- SQ)
-
- a gdcmDocument is_a gdcmElementSet,
- composed of a set of gdcmValEntry
- and gdcmSeqEntry
-
- a gdcmSeqEntry is considered as a set
- of gdcmSQItem
-
- Dicom Sequences (VR = SQ) are now dealt as tree-like
- structures within gdcmSQItem class.
- they are considered as a set of gdcmSQItems
- - a gdcmSQItem is_a gdcmElementSet
-
- - Improvement of the jpeg sub-library: jpeg
- compressed Dicom files (lossless and lossy)
- might be read (check-it out)
+
- any dicom related file is a gdcmDocument
+
- a gdcmDocument can be :
+
+ - a gdcmHeader, if it contains pixel data
+
- a gdcmDicomDir, if it contains only informations
+ on the files in a given directory
+
+
+ - a gdcmDocument is_a gdcmElementSet,
+ composed of a set of gdcmEntry separated into :
+
+ - gdcmValEntry
+ a specialization of gdcmValEntry, for 'non
+ std::string representable' values is
+ gdcmBinEntry
+ - gdcmSeqEntry (VR = SQ, i.e Dicom Sequences)
+ they are dealt as tree-like structures :
+ - a gdcmSeqEntry is considered as a set
+ of gdcmSQItem,
+ - a gdcmSQItem is_a gdcmElementSet, composed
+ of gdcmDocEntries, recursively
+
+
+ Improvement of the jpeg sub-library: jpeg
+ compressed Dicom files (lossless and lossy)
+ might be read (check-it out)
@@ -97,6 +314,11 @@ We consider now that :
Version 0.4 (February 6 2004)
+
+ - gdcm 0.4 UML Class Diagram.
+
- User Documentation"
+
- Developper Documentation
+
- Introduction of a jpeg sub-library: some very simple jpeg-lossy
compressed Dicom files might be working (check-it out).
- And also, fewer memory leaks, cleaned-up stl usage (should work
@@ -104,6 +326,10 @@ We consider now that :
supporting both Swig and vtk wrapping.
- Introduction of a RLE (Run-Time Encoding) library
- Color images (RGB or Palette Color) are dealt with
+
- Confusing names gdcmPatient, gdcmStudy,
+ gdcmSerie, gdcmPatient changed to
+ gdcmDicomDirPatient, gdcmDicomDirStudy,
+ gdcmDicomDirSerie, gdcmDicomDirPatient