2016 Summer Project Week/DICOM Parametric Maps

Key Investigators

This software project is part of the QIICR project.

Add API to DCMTK (library called dcmpmap) which allows easy creation and reading of DICOM Parametric Map objects
Parametric Map objects have been introduced in DICOM with Supplement 172 in 2014.
From the Supplement: DICOM Parametric Maps include quantitative derived images computed from acquired images, where each pixel value has a "meaning" in the real world, and the name "parametric" alludes to the meaning being the parameter of something, such as a pharmacokinetic model. In general, the term "parametric map" is loosely used to refer to any derived image whose pixel values have a quantitative meaning, as opposed to acquired images, whose pixel values may or may not have meaning
This week we will work to discuss and finalize the API of the the library and prepare it for checkin to DCMTK

There is already a first version of a code generator that creates code for DICOM modules, functional groups and partly IODs
Extended QIIRC API for converting itk to DICOM parametric map and vv (not complete)