Hi Mario,

nice to hear about this success in Fedora medical SIG

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:24:08PM +0200, Mario Ceresa wrote:
> Dear all,
> several important changes happened recently in fedora medical. The
> following packages were added:
>
> * InsightToolkit (ITK)- Kitware flagship medical image analysis library
> * Orthanc - Lightweight PACS
> * octave-dicom - Dicom package for octave
> * gdcm bumped up to last release
>
> Especially ITK was a big jump after almost 4 years of review! It now
> unblocks a wide range of medical imaging software such as:
>
> * elastix - image registration
> * GinkoCAD - DICOM viewer
> * ITKSnap - Segmentation

> * vmtk - Vascular modeling kit

Feel free to have a look into the available Debian packaging if this
might be helpful.  (I like to repeat the hint that you can find all
medical imaging related applications in Debian here[1] while tools to
develop medical imaging applications are listed here[2].)

> * Seg3D 2 - Segmentation

> * msvtk - Multi-scale visualization toolkit

These are good hints also for Debian.  We should put these on our todo
list.

> On another side, Orthanc enables Fedora to act as a PACS to interchange
> dicom images between several peers.
>
> I think it would be nice to concentrate now in having a working and
> integrated dicom viewer (GinkoCAD) and segmentation program (Seg3D2 or
> ITKSnap).
>
> Maybe, with some effort, we might even propose three features for one of
> the next fedora releases:
>
> * "medical image platform clinic" which would include:
> a) improved dicom compatilibity (already done with dcmtk, gdcm,
> octave-dicom)
> b) pacs support (orthanc, already done) + GinkoCAD
> c) InsightToolkit (already done)
> d) segmentation tools (ITKSnap + Seg3d 2)
>
> * "medical image platform research" which would include:
> a) 3D slicer
> b) registration tools (elastix + ants)
> c) statistical shape models (statismo + shapeworks)
> d) vascular analysis (vmtk)
> e) guided surgery (openigtlink, already done + IGSTK)
>
> * "biomechanical platform" which would include:
> a) Meshing (Biomesh3d, cleaver, stellar)
> b) FEM code (Elmer, Kratos, OpenPalm, OpenFOAM)
> c) Salome modeler
>
> An updated page with current status of all these packages is:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Medical_Imaging

Remark: In Debian Med (and other Blends - SIGs in Fedora jargon) we
realised that keeping Wiki pages up to date costs some effort.  So we
found a solution to render these pages (like [1] or [2]) automatically.
We are currently trying to improve this in a GSoC project.  May be you
might consider doing something similar in next years GSoC?

> Probably some of those packages are already included in Debian/Ubuntu and
> we can contact our fellow packagers for help with patches.

Ahh - I was inline answering.  Now reading this I think this question
was answered above and I'd be happy to help in case of questions.

> Is there anyone interested in all of this?

I'm definitely interested (even if I do not use Fedora, sorry).

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging
[2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging-dev

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