2012 Project Week:DICOM

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  Slicer4 DICOM current state

Key Investigators

• BWH: Andrey Fedorov
• Isomics: Steve Pieper
• Queen's: Andras Lasso
• WUSTL: Misha Milchenko

Objective

Discuss and test DICOM current state and use cases in slicer4

Approach, Plan

• Test DICOM networking with sample servers.
• Review layout of the widget.
• Consider how DWI and DICOMRT should integrate with DICOM module
• Review the Slicer Data Bundle (lollipop)
• DICOM RT
• DICOM SR
• Consider how 4D data should integrate ?
• In general, modules should be able to access all DICOM fields of a loaded image
• Introduce DICOM import plugin modules? (modules that are notified when the user selects a DICOM file for loading and can extract various objects: images, models, etc.)
• Consider how DICOM module mechanisms could be used by the CLI modules for accessing/parsing DICOM studies?

Progress

• Significant discussion as part of DICOM and DICOM RT breakout sessions
• General agreement with overall goals for networking
• Specific feedback collected on interface
  • Need better display Patient/Study browser (ctkDICOMModel)
  • Need to improve SQL schema (ctkDICOMDatabase)
• New infrastructure
  • DICOM Module needs hooks for loading specific DICOM types
    • DICOM RT
    • DWI DICOM
    • (perhaps) DICOM SR
  • Need to have software process for contributing enhancements upstream to CTK and DCMTK

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a core functionality of 3D Slicer v.4

References

• Networking and Qt
  • http://www.commontk.org
• Utilities
• http://dicom.offis.de
• http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/
• RT
  • http://support.dcmtk.org/wiki/dcmrt/start
  • http://plastimatch.org/
• Surfaces and segmentations:
  • http://qibawiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=Segmentation_and_Markup_Formats
  • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/final/sup132_ft.pdf
  • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/final/sup111_ft.pdf