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Aditya Panchal edited this page Aug 9, 2015 · 1 revision

Goals of dicompyler

dicompyler seeks to be an open source tool for radiation therapy based on the DICOM standard using Python based technologies. To be as useful as possible, a plugin-style architecture will be adopted to enable extensibility.

If you are interested in open source, Python-based tools for radiation therapy QA and dosimetry, please check out the RadPy project.

Specific goals

  • Read and write DICOM files.
  • Read and write DICOM-RT files, as well as extensions, such as DICOM-RT-Ion.
  • Display image, contour, DVH, and isodose data.
  • Contour/re-contour volumes.
  • Enable 3rd party plugins, such as dose-calculation algorithms.
  • Many other treatment planning and treatment comparison related capabilities.

Timeline

Keeping in mind that roadmaps and timelines are always speculative...

As of December 31st, 2011

Version 0.1

Released: February 20th, 2010

Features:

  • Import DICOM-RT
  • Display list of structures
  • Display associated cDVH's (with adjustable constraints)

Version 0.2

Released: July 17th, 2010

Features:

  • New tabbed interface
  • Initial plugin architecture in place
  • Example plugins - (PluginDevelopmentGuide)
    • Display tree of all DICOM data
    • Display all DVH's on same plot (selectively)
    • Display image data with structures and dose
    • DICOM anonymization

Version 0.3

Released: October 5th, 2010

Features:

  • 2D image viewer
    • Added Mousewheel image navigation
    • Added Zoom controls via toolbar and +/- keys
    • Added Panning of image via left mouse dragging
    • Added Window & level control via right mouse dragging
  • DVH viewer
    • Simplified and streamlined the DVH constraint interface
  • General
    • Many bugfixes
    • Plugins now can have toolbar buttons and will respond to focus events
  • See the Release Notes for more detailed information

Version 0.4

Released: Test Version 0.4a2 - May 19th, 2011

Features:

  • Import Differential DVH
  • Generation of DVH from DICOM RT Dose matrix
  • Preferences for each plugin

Version 0.4.1

Released: December 31st, 2011

Features:

  • Refactored into a Python package
  • Error reporter for easier submission of bug reports from binary versions
  • Logging for dicompyler and 3rd-party plugins
  • Support volumetric image series other than CT (i.e. PET/MR)
  • Support DICOM-RT Ion Plans

Version 0.4.2

Release: July 15th, 2014 (Download now)

Features:

  • Added Quick DICOM Import plugin
  • Plugins can now access the 2D View drawing canvas
  • Advanced Plugin Manager
    • Can enable/disable plugins
  • DICOM data can now be loaded via command line argument or dragging and dropping a folder on the dicompyler icon on the Windows version
  • Added persistence of the window size and position
  • Many bug fixes

Version 0.5

Release: Future, TBD

Features:

  • Auto-updater for binary versions
  • Auto-updater for binary versions
  • Advanced Plugin Manager
    • Can enable/disable plugins
    • Download plugins from dicompyler plugin repository
  • Structure interpolation
  • 3-pane 2D Image viewer (transverse, sagittal, coronal)
  • Editing of all DICOM fields
  • Compare DVH's from two separate RT plans
  • Display of dose on image (colorwash)

Version 0.6

Release: Future, TBD

Features:

  • Performance boosts
  • Code refactoring
  • PEP-8 compliance
  • Documentation overhaul

Version ??

Release: Future, TBD

Features:

  • Python 3.x compatibility
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