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dcmjpeg: a compression/decompression library and utility apps

This module contains classes that convert between uncompressed and JPEG compressed representations (transfer syntaxes) of a DICOM image object. Both lossless and lossy JPEG processes are supported. This module implements a family of codecs that are derived from class DcmCodec and can be registered in the codec list maintained in module dcmdata.

The main interface classes are:

Tools

This module contains the following command line tools:

Examples

The following example shows how to compress a DICOM image file with lossless JPEG:

DJEncoderRegistration::registerCodecs(); // register JPEG codecs DcmFileFormat fileformat; if (fileformat.loadFile("test.dcm").good()) { DcmDataset *dataset = fileformat.getDataset(); DcmItem *metaInfo = fileformat.getMetaInfo(); DJ_RPLossless params; // codec parameters, we use the defaults // this causes the lossless JPEG version of the dataset to be created dataset->chooseRepresentation(EXS_JPEGProcess14SV1TransferSyntax, &params); // check if everything went well if (dataset->canWriteXfer(EXS_JPEGProcess14SV1TransferSyntax)) { // force the meta-header UIDs to be re-generated when storing the file // since the UIDs in the data set may have changed delete metaInfo->remove(DCM_MediaStorageSOPClassUID); delete metaInfo->remove(DCM_MediaStorageSOPInstanceUID); // store in lossless JPEG format fileformat.saveFile("test_jpeg.dcm", EXS_JPEGProcess14SV1TransferSyntax); } } DJEncoderRegistration::cleanup(); // deregister JPEG codecs

The following example shows how to decompress a JPEG-compressed DICOM image file:

DJDecoderRegistration::registerCodecs(); // register JPEG codecs DcmFileFormat fileformat; if (fileformat.loadFile("test_jpeg.dcm").good()) { DcmDataset *dataset = fileformat.getDataset(); // decompress data set if compressed dataset->chooseRepresentation(EXS_LittleEndianExplicit, NULL); // check if everything went well if (dataset->canWriteXfer(EXS_LittleEndianExplicit)) { fileformat.saveFile("test_decompressed.dcm", EXS_LittleEndianExplicit); } } DJDecoderRegistration::cleanup(); // deregister JPEG codecs


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