add DICOM (aka supp 145) support #142
Benjamin Gilbert
bgilbert at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Mar 24 00:48:27 EDT 2015
On 03/23/2015 10:28 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 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.
Once a quickhash is defined for a given slide file, it can't be changed.
As a result, it's better for the very first quickhash implementation
to support the full generality of the file format. Otherwise, a later
version of your driver might have to select between two different
implementations depending on the properties of the slide file, which
complicates the code.
For example: the Leica driver has to use one quickhash implementation
for slides with a single AOI, and a more general implementation for
slides with multiple AOIs. We couldn't use the general version
everywhere because that would change the hashes of single-AOI slides.
--Benjamin Gilbert
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