FABULOUS!!  That is an exciting development, and long overdue.

Hans


From: Brian Helba <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Friday, December 6, 2013 12:29 PM
To: Hans Johnson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, ITK 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Bill Lorensen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
ITK Users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
Constantine Zakkaroff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] [ITK Community] Image Intensities Changed During 
DICOM Read-Write-Read in ITK 3.20 vs. ITK 4.4.1

As for upgrading GDCM, I'm currently in the process of updating both OpenJPEG 
and GDCM, and in the process, I'm transitioning those libraries to the new Git 
workflow for ThirdParty modules, where we can clearly identify how ITK's 
versions has forked from upstream (and indeed it has forked by a significant 
number of commits). As part of this process, both libraries will also be 
upgraded.

However, upgrading GDCM will not solve the physical coordinate issues that 
users having been reporting with physical coordinates. I'm preparing a bug 
report with more detail, but as a quick preview: GDCM 2.x is now much strict 
about conforming to the DICOM standard, and is not writing out tags for 
physical coordinate properties for images of unknown (a.k.a. Seconary Capture) 
imaging modalities. I think the solution is for ITK to go back to the behavior 
that is technically less conformant with the standard but more conformant to 
expectations, as it was in GDCM 1.x and ITK 3, where physical coordinate tags 
are always respected, regardless of modality. This requires changes to GDCM 
itself, and since we don't want GDCMImageIO's behavior to differ depending on 
whether a system-installed copy of GDCM is being used, we need to coordinate 
with upstream. I'm in the process of this right now, and I'll have some news 
shortly.


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Johnson, Hans J 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Brian,

Have you investigated updating GDCM?  The version we are using is very old with 
respect to the number of bug and performance improvements over the last 2 
years.  Matthieu has become very active in updating GDCM for multiple platforms 
over the past 2 years.

Hans


From: Brian Helba <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Friday, December 6, 2013 11:41 AM
To: Bill Lorensen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>

Cc: ITK Users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
Constantine Zakkaroff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] [ITK Community] Image Intensities Changed During 
DICOM Read-Write-Read in ITK 3.20 vs. ITK 4.4.1

I've been looking into this whole category of GDCM issues. I'm preparing some 
more thorough bug reports for Jira, mostly related to the physical coordinate 
properties.

I've also looked at the rescale issue, and it seems like the simple hack may 
actually be the best solution without some complicated new functionality in 
GDCM: if the slope-intercept tags are set for an image, just apply the inverse 
of the rescaling function to the image values right before sending them to 
GDCM. I'll try to get a patch with a good test together in the next few days, 
before the next RC.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Bill Lorensen 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I probably will not get to this before the release.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Yi-Yu Chou 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> It appears the bug "Acquisition Matrix" is still not corrected when running
> with itk4.5_rc02.
> Are you going to fix it in the new released itk ?
>
> Many thanks !!
>
> Yi-Yu
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Constantine Zakkaroff 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> It appears the bug with slope and intercept being processed incorrectly
>> still shows up in ITK 4.4.2.
>>
>> Is there an explanation why in the original DICOM file rescale slope is
>> 7.1, but in order to see the same image stats (min, max, etc.) it needs to
>> be saved with the rescale slope value of 1.0?
>>
>> Also, I believe I mentioned it a while ago, but there wasn't much feedback
>> on this: some tag values get unexpected values. For example, compare the
>> following tag values in the original DICOM file:
>>
>> (0010,21C0) Pregnancy Status VR: US Length: 2 Value: 4
>> (0018,0088) Spacing Between Slices VR: DS Length: 4 Value: 17.0
>> (0018,1310) Acquisition Matrix VR: US Length: 8 Value: 0 144 144 0
>>
>> and saved file:
>>
>> (0010,21C0) Pregnancy Status VR: US Length: 2 Value: 52
>> (0018,0088) Spacing Between Slices VR: DS Length: 2 Value: 1
>> (0018,1310) Acquisition Matrix VR: US Length: 12 Value: 23600 13361 23604
>> 13361 23604 48
>>
>> As suggested earlier, I use the same GDCMImageIO object for reading and
>> writing.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Constantine
>>
>>
>> On 16/08/2013 19:13, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>>
>>> Constantine,
>>>
>>> You found a bug in itk's dicom IO. I'll report it and prepare a patch to
>>> fix it for future users.
>>>
>>> As a workaround, which should work for ITK 3 and ITK4 and hopefully
>>> after I fix the bug:
>>>
>>> 1) If you want to retain the input dicom entries, you should create a
>>> GDCMImageIO and use it for both the input and output.
>>> 2) To work around the itk dicom bug, add these lines AFTER the stats
>>> filter:
>>>    // Set rescale slope and intercept to 1 and 0
>>>    imageReader0->Update();
>>>    typedef itk::MetaDataDictionary   DictionaryType;
>>>    DictionaryType & dict =
>>> imageReader0->GetOutput()->GetMetaDataDictionary();
>>>    itk::EncapsulateMetaData<std::string>( dict, "0028|1052", "0.0");
>>>    itk::EncapsulateMetaData<std::string>( dict, "0028|1053", "1.0");
>>>
>>> NOTE: You need to #include "itkMetaDataObject.h"
>>>
>>> I've attached the your program with all of these changes. Thanks for
>>> your patience,
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
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