[fedora-medical] Last updates

Mario Ceresa mrceresa at gmail.com
Tue May 14 10:24:08 UTC 2013


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
* Seg3D 2 - Segmentation
* vmtk - Vascular modeling kit
* msvtk - Multi-scale visualization toolkit

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

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

Is there anyone interested in all of this?

Best,

Mario
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