Re: Package Proposal: DICOM_File

El Vie 09 May 2003 19:07, Pierre-Alain Joye escribió: > On Fri, 9 May 2003 18:56:51 -0400 > > Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com> wrote: > > I want to propose a package for reading and modifying DICOM files. > > DICOM > > files are used for imaging in medicine (they can contain > > audio/image/video), but this package mostly deals with the metadata > > fields in such a file. DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and > > COmmunications in Medicine, but as the package name suggests it will > > not deal with any communications/network related stuff. You can find > > more information on DICOM at: http://medical.nema.org/ > > > > proposed category: medicine (a bit too specific, but I learned my > > lesson :) proposed status: alpha > > package, source code, sample script and API docs at: > > http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~xnoguer/DICOM/ > > File_DICOM I like DICOM_File more, it would make for a cleaner file structure if someone is crazy enough to implement the DICOM protocol (DIMSE) some day. > And you got my +1 here and that remember me to add image(read)pnm :). If you mean a way to "import" pnm files into a dicom file, I have some "ethical" issues with that. It wouldn't be to difficult to extend the current class to allow to write DICOM files from scratch, but I don't feel comfortable with the idea of creating something, which could end in someone's medical record, out of thin air. > > - add documentation (Have to figure a non-stupid way of documenting > > the ~1700 > > I hope you made a little script to generate this array ;-). I stole it from dicomperl (http://dicomperl.sourceforge.net/) actually :) Xavier