DICOM supplement 145 inquiry

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi David,

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:48 PM, David Gutman <dagutman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yves-- I am familiar at least at some high level with the Dicom standard--
> although as you point out it's a standard without a way to read or write
> images, and no images to even test on!

It's 'DICOM' uppercase, as any other acronym

> I am not sure how well the standard maps to the OMETIFF format-- but that
> would likely be the easiest way to go.  I routinely convert images I scan
> on either an Aperio machine or an Olympus Nanozoomer into "just a tiff"....
> so presumably we could generate a tiff and then "reformat" it so that it
> meets the DICOM standard, including adding all of the necessary metadata.
> I don't have much experience with the library directly (I hate editing
> Java)... but since it's open source, and the properties and data model are
> fairly well developed, it would be a template to hack onto the current OMERO
> XML model and make it DICOM friendly...

As explained by Yves, Sup 145 clearly specify all of that. Going to
OME-TIFF as an intermediate steps, will only make the work actually
even harder.
Finally some slides do not have the complete image at full resolution,
so you cannot simply 'drop' the intermediate levels, again Sup 145
specify that.

2cts
-- 
Mathieu