Re: GPL X-rays

2007-01-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi David, I am working on a library called GDCM. I am always looking for DICOM know to break other readers. Could you please send me a copy of this DICOM dataset ? From the top of my head mecon does not support RGB DICOM but is robust to a couple of known DICOM bugs. GDCM is a DICOM library re

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-24 Thread user local
2006/12/4, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. lossy jpeg conforms to the DICOM Standard Before I had a working linux viewer, just wanted to look at images. If you haven't to see series exams (aka MR, CT) display from ImageMagick wor

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-06 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 00:00 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:05:04 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > > > David Baron writes: > > >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > > > > > No one would use lossy compression on medi

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-04 Thread David Baron
On Monday 04 December 2006 00:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > > David Baron writes: > >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > But those little bits of noise make life so interesting!!!

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-04 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 03 December 2006 22:56, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > > So I tried off Sid medcon (command line converter) and xmedcon (with GUI > > and viewer). Segmentation faults, probably in common library used by the > > two programs. Will try some o

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 19:07, John Hasler wrote: > Miles writes: >> As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people >> figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > It's appalling that anyone responsible for suc

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Miles writes: > As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people > figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-rays. It's appalling that anyone responsible for such things would ever think you should. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Hasler wrote: David Baron writes: just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-ray

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:05:04 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > > David Baron writes: > >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > But those little bits of noise make life so interest

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > David Baron writes: >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. But those little bits of noise make life so interesting!!! - -- Ron Johnson,

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:57:12PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:13, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > > > several > > > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > > > if they actua

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > So I tried off Sid medcon (command line converter) and xmedcon (with GUI and > viewer). Segmentation faults, probably in common library used by the two > programs. Will try some of the stuff on google. Report it as bugs, you can use the "re

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:13, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > > several > > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > > if they actually are free software or simply gratis. > > Of course, I forgot the mos

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > several > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > if they actually are free software or simply gratis. Of course, I forgot the most obvious... a simple "apt-cache search dicom" shows several packag

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:45 +0200, David Baron wrote: > The commercial packages is called "Diadisk". The array is placed under or > patient and it records the image. It is later connected to the computer to > retrieve the X-ray. Like all good commercial packages, the storage formats > are nicely

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:45:27PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Film is being made obselete not only in the realm of light photography but > X-rays as well. Remember that little wrapped up card one held behind your > teeth and then returned to the goo