2011 Summer Project Week DICOM Networking

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  Projects List

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  Current prototype (not fully functional) with DCMTK/Qt-based ctkDICOM widgets in Slicer4

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  Latest ctkDICOM widgets (2011-6-24)

Key Investigators

• BWH: Nicole Aucoin, Noby Hata
• Isomics: Steve Pieper
• AZE: Nicholas Herlambang

Goal is to define use cases and test current implementations of DICOM networking.

Objective

Come away with a specific design for GUI and functionality of Slicer4's DICOM networking support.

Collect concrete use cases.

Approach, Plan

Review current prototypes and functionality available in various toolkits (CTK, DCMTK).

• CTK DICOM work

Progress

• Discussed concrete use cases with key customers
  • DICOM-RT (Greg Sharp)
  • Prostate Therapy (Andrey Fedorov)
• Reviewed mapping of DICOM and Displayable Hierarchies
• Some progress on ctkDICOM
  • Better inter-connectivity between widgets
  • Window/Level and zoom function in image previewer
  • Cool new cine display in ctkDICOM!
  • Defined some TODOs:
    • Multiple selections on data list
    • Show the number of images for each series in data list
    • Cine display accross series/studies
    • Implement search function on local SQLite database
    • Tool-tip previewing
• Breakout session on multi volume containers

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NAMIC Kit as a

1. NITRIC distribution
2. Slicer Module
   1. Built-in: yes, a core part of slicer4
   2. Extension -- commandline: Maybe, if needed
   3. Extension -- loadable: no