Pixelmed
1.Description of the platform/product:
- name and version of the software: Pixelmed Java Toolkit, http://www.dclunie.com/pixelmed/software/20160907_current/
- free? yes
- commercial? no
- open source? yes http://www.dclunie.com/pixelmed/software/20160907_current/
- what DICOM library do you use? no extra DICOM libraries
2.Description of the relevant features of the platform:
- are both single and multiple segments supported? not clear (as tested by Andrey Fedorov)
- how are the overlapping segments handled? N/A
- do you support both BINARY and FRACTIONAL segmentation types? not clear (as tested by Andrey Fedorov) TBD
- do you render the segment using the color specified in the DICOM object? no
- how do you communicate segment semantics to the user? not available
- how do you support the user in defining the semantics of the object at the time segmentation is created? the tool is a viewer only, not applicable
3.Read task: load each of the DICOM SEG datasets that accompany the imaging series into your platform
Steps to load DICOM SEG into Pixelmed image viewer:
1. Convert image dataset into multiframe using script such as below (parameters: input single-frame DICOM directory, and the directory for the output multiframe image):
#!/bin/sh
PIXELMEDDIR=.
java -Xmx2g -Xms512m -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -cp "${PIXELMEDDIR}/pixelmed.jar:${PIXELMEDDIR}/lib/additional/commons-compress-1.9.jar:${PIXELMEDDIR}/lib/additional/commons-codec-1.3.jar:${PIXELMEDDIR}/lib/additional/vecmath1.2-1.14.jar" com.pixelmed.dicom.MultiFrameImageFactory $*
2. Display SEG in overlay using the following command (parameters: multiframe DICOM image, and DICOM SEG image):
java -Xmx2g -Xms512m -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -cp "${PIXELMEDDIR}/pixelmed.jar:${PIXELMEDDIR}/lib/additional/commons-compress-1.9.jar:${PIXELMEDDIR}/lib/additional/commons-codec-1.3.jar:${PIXELMEDDIR}/lib/additional/vecmath1.2-1.14.jar" com.pixelmed.display.SuperimposedDicomSegments $*
Test dataset #1
| Test dataset | Result of rendering |
|---|---|
| 3D Slicer |  |
| Brainlab |  |
| syngo.via |  |
| AIMonClearCanvas |  |
Test dataset #2
| Test dataset | Result of rendering |
|---|---|
| 3D Slicer |   |
| Brainlab |  |
Notes:
- Appears that only one segment can be displayed in a slice at a time.
- Possible errors rendering Brainlab dataset. Runtime errors:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Coordinate out of bounds!
at sun.awt.image.IntegerInterleavedRaster.getDataElements(IntegerInterleavedRaster.java:219)
at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.getRGB(BufferedImage.java:918)
at com.pixelmed.display.SuperimposedImage$AppliedToUnderlyingImage.notificationOfCurrentLocationIn3DSpace(SuperimposedImage.java:224)
at com.pixelmed.display.SingleImagePanel.updateStatusBarValues(SingleImagePanel.java:1039)
at com.pixelmed.display.SingleImagePanel.mouseMoved(SingleImagePanel.java:993)
Test dataset #3
| Test dataset | Result of rendering |
|---|---|
| 3D Slicer |  |
Test dataset #4
| Test dataset | Result of rendering |
|---|---|
| 3D Slicer |  |
Test dataset #5
| Test dataset | Result of rendering |
|---|---|
| dcmqi |  |
4.Write task
Application evaluated is viewer only. Pixelmed has capabilities of writing DICOM SEG objects, but those were not evaluated.