add DICOM (aka supp 145) support #142

[Alvaro Gonzalez]

Good! I'll test it against our products...

Btw, it uses multiframe, isn't it?

El 23/03/15 a las 15:28, Mathieu Malaterre escribió:
> Folks,
>
> I prepared a quick and dirty patch to support DICOM (aka Supp 145) in
> OpenSlide. Some datasets have recently been released by DICOM WG26 and
> I could test my code against those:
>
> https://github.com/malaterre/openslide/tree/dicom-wsi
>
> Long story short, this is not clear where this standard is going, but
> I assumed that when exporting as DICOM VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image
> Storage instance(s) a DICOMDIR would be generated. So the
> implementation will require a DICOMDIR instance to process the slides.
>
> While DICOM Supp 145 do support multiple slides per Study, support for
> those has not been added since OpenSlide does not provide an API for
> dealing with those -yet-. This means I can safely use the Study
> (alone) to have a unique quickash.
>
> Enjoy,