HelloVizWorld.cxx

/*=========================================================================
 
  Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library
 
  Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details.
 
     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.
 
=========================================================================*/
/*
 * Basic example for dealing with a DICOM file that contains an Image
 * (read: Pixel Data element)
 */
 
#include "gdcmImageReader.h"
#include "gdcmImageWriter.h"
#include "gdcmImage.h"
#include "gdcmPhotometricInterpretation.h"
 
#include <iostream>
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  if( argc < 3 )
    {
    std::cerr << argv[0] << " input.dcm output.dcm" << std::endl;
    return 1;
    }
  const char *filename = argv[1];
  const char *outfilename = argv[2];
 
  // Instantiate the image reader:
  gdcm::ImageReader reader;
  reader.SetFileName( filename );
  if( !reader.Read() )
    {
    std::cerr << "Could not read: " << filename << std::endl;
    return 1;
    }
  // If we reach here, we know for sure 2 things:
  // 1. It is a valid DICOM
  // 2. And it contains an Image !
 
  // The output of superclass gdcm::Reader is a gdcm::File
  //gdcm::File &file = reader.GetFile();
 
  // The other output of gdcm::ImageReader is a gdcm::Image
  const gdcm::Image &image = reader.GetImage();
 
  // Let's get some property from the image:
  unsigned int ndim = image.GetNumberOfDimensions();
  // Dimensions of the image:
  const unsigned int *dims = image.GetDimensions();
  // Origin
  const double *origin = image.GetOrigin();
  const gdcm::PhotometricInterpretation &pi = image.GetPhotometricInterpretation();
  for(unsigned int i = 0; i < ndim; ++i)
    {
    std::cout << "Dim(" << i << "): " << dims[i] << std::endl;
    }
  for(unsigned int i = 0; i < ndim; ++i)
    {
    std::cout << "Origin(" << i << "): " << origin[i] << std::endl;
    }
  std::cout << "PhotometricInterpretation: " << pi << std::endl;
 
  // Write the modified DataSet back to disk
  gdcm::ImageWriter writer;
  writer.SetImage( image );
  writer.SetFileName( outfilename );
  //writer.SetFile( file ); // We purposely NOT copy the meta information from the input
                            // file, and instead only pass the image
  if( !writer.Write() )
    {
    std::cerr << "Could not write: " << outfilename << std::endl;
    return 1;
    }
 
  return 0;
}