Test suite for DCMTK

Posted on 2011-07-01 by Jörg Riesmeier

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve started to set up a test suite for the DICOM toolkit DCMTK. In fact, this is something we were thinking about for more than 10 years now, but in the past we never found the time to really do that. There were already some test programs in the various DCMTK modules, e.g. in the “ofstd/tests” and “dcmdata/tests” sub-directories, but these were stand-alone command line programs that had to be invoked separately. Also the output of these programs was quite different and it was not always easy to assess whether the tests were performed successfully or not on a particular platform. Continue reading →

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DCMTK always up-to-date

Posted on 2011-06-24 by Jörg Riesmeier

Starting with version 3.6.0, we are trying to keep the DCMTK always up-to-date with regard to the changes of the DICOM standard. Of course, because of our limited manpower we usually have to concentrate on a few aspects that are most relevant for the majority of the DCMTK users: Continue reading →

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Second DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Posted on 2011-05-19 by Jörg Riesmeier

Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the second snapshot after the last official release. Basically, only minor issues have been fixed that were detected after the publication of the previous version. In addition, the toolkit has been adapted for the latest final text supplements and correction items, i.e. the data dictionary as well as the list of SOP classes and transfer syntaxes are again up-to-date. Continue reading →

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How valuable is DCMTK?

Posted on 2011-04-18 by Jörg Riesmeier

In case you’ve ever asked yourself how valuable DCMTK is, then Ohloh has the answer: about 4.2 Million Dollar! In other words, it is estimated that it would take about 76 person years to write the more than 285,000 lines of code from scratch. — Would you have imagined that?

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When will DCMRT be released?

Posted on 2011-04-05 by Jörg Riesmeier

From time to time we are asked when the DCMTK module for radiation therapy (DCMRT) will be released. The original plan was to have a first release available about a year ago, i.e. March/April 2010. However, for various reasons this did not work. We still hope to have a first public version of this library available in a couple of weeks. Till then, you could either check the online documentation or send us an email and request access to the current development version. Continue reading →

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