CtkDICOM

ctkDICOM

Showcase application showing the DICOM retrieve and browse functionality of different CTK components.

Basic functionality

• Provide a database managing Patient, Study and Series information
  • sql schema of header data
  • Import local files
    • Recursive traversal of directories
    • Parsing of DICOMDIR files (WIP@DKFZ)
    • Manage local database: delete files, re-index, (vacuum or other db admin as needed)
  • Query and Retrieve data from PACS
    • Search by different criteria
    • Configure PACS settings
    • Background listener that feeds into database
    • Efficient Study/Series move requests (integrate incremental queries into ctkDICOMModel)
  • Thumbnail preview of selected series
  • Quick single slice view
    • Zoom/pan
    • Level window
  • Search interface for local database (like Q/R search terms)
  • Helper code for attaching new volume data into proper DICOM format and into database
  • Store user code (send)
  • Export from database to external directory (possibly with DICOMDIR)

• Structure Code for maximum reuses
  • Utilize and enhance DcmSCU/DcmSCP code for core networking and contribute back to dcmtk where possible
  • Provide ctk classes a Q_OBJECT wrappers around DcmSCU/P code
    • Core for non-GUI helpers
    • Widgets for QWidget subclasses
  • All Q_OBJECT code should provide a rich property/invokable API plus plenty of signals and slots of that applications using the code can have customizability and user feedback
  • Example helper applications like ctkDICOM, ctkDICOMIndexer, etc should be both demonstrations of the API and useful utilities in their own right

• Provide testing environment
  • store/query/move/get tests
  • example server (dcmqrscp)
  • instructions for creating promiscuous server with cget so any user machine can test ctkDICOM networking