A dicomfind utility about vtk-dicom HOT 3 CLOSED

A dicomfind tool has been merged. It doesn't work like "find" (not yet). It takes a query file, formatted like the file below, and produces a csv file with the results of the query, with one line in the csv file for each file that matched the query. The "ReferencedFileID" matches the filename.

# This is a query file
00100010               # PatientName
00200010               # StudyId
00200011               # SeriesNumber
00081030               # StudyDescription
0008103E               # SeriesDescription
00041500               # ReferencedFileID

It's possible to query sequences by using a backslash-separated tags like 52009230\00209111\00189074, and it's possible to query private tags by placing a creator name in front of a tag like [MY_PRIVATE_DICT]00190034.

There are plenty of features that I want to add. The first is automated searching of the PerFrameFunctionalGroupsSequence and the SharedFunctionalGroupsSequence. So if PixelSpacing (0028,0030) is queried, the functional groups should be searched if they are present. Value selection would also be useful, i.e. if you only want the x and the y spacing to go to different columns in the csv.

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Progress. I've merged a new dicomfind tool that provides additional features.

The query can be supplied either as a series of "-k" options or as a query file as stated above. The default behavior is to print all the matching filenames, but if "-o" is used then a csv file is written.

Options are as follows:

-k gggg,eeee          # provide a key for universal matching
-k gggg,eeee=value    # provide a key with value matching
-q query.txt          # provide a query file
-o output.csv         # specify a csv file for output
-exec ... \;          # execute a command for each file (like "find")
-exec ... +           # execute a command for each series (like "find")

Private tag matching and sequence matching cannot yet be specified with the "-k" option, but they can be specified in the query file.

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The dicomfind program is complete, in fact the csv-writing capability was split off into a separate program called dicomtocsv. The dicomtocsv program does automatic searching of the FunctionalGroups, while diocmfind does not.

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