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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