Hi, Robert, Thanks for reply. I'm going on with the loader and if I create one, I'll contribute it!
2008/8/27, Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Hesicong, > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:57 AM, sicong he <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just get the lastest version from SVN and see the DICOM loader is >> implemented. A lot of changes has made to osgVolume example, so is there a >> schedual developping the volume rendering node for OSG? > > I don't development schedule has not been set yet. The work check in > so far is just preliminary exploratory work. > > My main task right now is completing VirtualPlanetBuilder to get to > its 1.0, once this is done, I'll be returning near fulltime to volume > rendering and related tasks. > >> I've also noticed that DICOM loader require ITK. I use ITK rencently to do >> segmentation. It's not easy to compile the huge ITK source code which >> needs also need some other relative software. We need only the DICOM >> loader >> though. >> And as I know the ITK dicom loader is not very powerful and some DICOM >> format can't be read by the loader. > > I understand the limitations of the ITK dicom loader, the image > process capabilities of ITK are what will be most valuable. I'm > learning about ITK and it capabilities and the the ITK dicom loader > naturally fell out of this work. > > It's my plan to offer an easy route between osgVolume and ITK so one > can put together an image processing pipeline without a great deal of > work at our end. > >> I suggest to use a more powerful, more offical DICOM toolkit---- DCMTK. >> You >> can get it from http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en. It's cross-platform, >> focus on DICOM format, easy to compile and very powerful. I use this >> package >> to do my DICOM reader front-end of my project. It could be another >> solution >> of our OSG DICOM plugin. > > I have download and compiled DCMTK, but haven't yet attempted to > create a plugin for it. It's just another API to learn, so I'm taking > them on one by one. > > My thought was to have a couple of dicom loader options, depending > upon what dependencies you had installed. CMake allows to check for > the various dependencies and choose which to compile. > > If you already have a dicom loader written feel free to contribute it :-) > > Robert. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
