AHM2012-DICOM-Huddle

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An organizational discussion of all the DICOM-related projects going on in the NA-MIC community:

• CTK DICOM and application hosting
• Slicer4 DICOM Module, and related projects
• Annotations: AIM, SR, and QIN
• DICOM RT efforts
  • Plastimatch
  • SlicerRt and SparKit
• ITKv4 DICOM
• Others?

Some Slicer4 topics:

• Multiple parsing of DICOM headers (slow loading)
• Mapping non-image DICOM data into MRML
  • header metadata
  • annotations
  • RT sturcutres and doses
  • time series
• Mapping MRML data into DICOM
  • Exporting images
    • Secondary Capture
    • 'real' CT or MR profiles
  • Segmentations
  • Surfaces
  • Scenes
    • Slicer Data Bundle (lollipop) is a zip file in a private tag of a secondary capture

Organizational Topics:

• How can we organize ourselves to minimize duplicated effort
• Who is 'on the hook' to deliver functionality related to DICOM?
  • What is funding the effort?
  • What is the use case and deliverable?
  • What toolkit will be used?
  • What synergy is there with other efforts?
• Are there specific issues that we can work out this week as a team?