This post came to me via the Debian Med mailing list, and I am forwarding it because it may be of interest to the openhealth community.
Regards -- Bhaskar -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: thanks and a question Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Resent-From: debian-...@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:41:53 -0500 From: <...snip...> To: <...snip...> CC: Debian Med Project List <debian-...@lists.debian.org>, gdcm-developers <gdcm-develop...@lists.sourceforge.net> References: <g0503xpucuy4dzcuk0uyaxe124vaj_fire...@mail.gmail.com> <580486.38000...@web33403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> This is a kind of hard question as you are talking about open-source project. Anyway long story-short I have also been *very* annoyed by quality control in DICOM implementation. I have setup a modest "DICOM Conformance Tests" which I called gdcmConformanceTests: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=General_questions#What_is_gdcmConformanceTests_.3F Those files have been validated by both GDCM and dcmtk as they are the two major DICOM implementations I am using. If you read the README(*) that comes with the tarball you'll see that the name of dcm4che comes in quite often, which is not really a good sign IMHO. The problem is not really to find out which DICOM implementation is best, but instead: - which one is actively maintained - fully open source, with truly transparent bug report - which one provide a full regression test suite I have setup a page on the typical tools I use for QA: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Gdcmconv/QC Cheers, (*) http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/Sandbox/GDCMDataCron/README?view=markup [KSB] <...snip...> _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _____________
