[Dcmlib] Re: Images axial acquisition order

[Jean-Pierre Roux]

Emmanuel Olart wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Jean-Pierre ROUX a écrit :
>
>>
[...]

>> I guess there are some heuristics to 'discover', before writting the 
>> code.
>> I'm going to ask to our friends from THERALYS, I'm almost sure they 
>> *had* to do the job, maybe in C++, or in Python.
>
> We had to do this work, JP is right. our heuristic is based both on 
> Image Position Patient (0x0020, 0x0032) and Image Orientation Patient 
> (0x0020, 0x0037) fields.
> I didn't do it myself, a large part of the work was conducted by 
> Eduardo Davila who works now for creatis (I believe ?).

Eduardo works now for the Cardological Hospital. I met him this morning.
He told me Fabrice Vincent gave him some theory about the general pb.
He wrote the heuristics (6 different cases) in Python, and let the code 
at Theralys'.

> The outcome of our algorithm is an "Orientation type" that can be 
> Axial(feet to head), Axial invert (head to feet), Coronal, Coronal 
> invert, etc ...
> I'll have a look at the code to see if I can give you some useful 
> hints. It has been writen in Python.

Could you send me the piece of code, I'll convert it into C++, add it to 
gdcm.

> Please note that we didn't have time to test this heuristic 
> extensively on all DICOM images we are working with. So it *may* not 
> work with some images .

I think gdcm users will tell us if something is wrong somewhere.
And we all have a stronger heuristics.

-> BTW, Luca, could you upload somewhere the images you're working on?
(I think we never had to deal with 'teeth images' -only brain and 
heart-, so we can see if Eduardo's heuristics works on them)

Thx to everybody.

JP


>
>> ==> Emmanuel, are you on holydays ?
>> Or still reading the mails?
>>
> I'm there, no holidays for me until september (maybe ...) ;)
>
> Manu
>
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