GDCM: OpenSource DICOM library

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@kitware.com>]

Hello,

	I am working on this OpenSource library: GDCM. It's licensed on a BSD 
like license:
	http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/

	Is this a good candidate for the Debian-Med: Medical Imaging ?

Thanks,
Mathieu
More info:
Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing 
Dicom medical files.
GDCM stands as a short for "Grass roots DiCoM.
What gdcm IS

    * gdcm implements the dicom base standard part 5 that concentrates 
on image file format. Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
          o ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
          o Dicom version 3.0 (including various encodings of jpeg, 
RLE). Please refer to gdcm conformance summary for more details.
    * gdcm is distributed with Berkeley-like license.
    * gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++ (refer to 
requirements for details).
    * gdcm comes with a VTK shallow wrapper class vtkGdcmReader (refer 
to VtkGdcm) to ease the burden of VTK users,
    * gdcm also comes with gdcmPython it's SWIG generated Python wrappers.

What gdcm is NOT
Except for dicom base standard part 5 gdcm does NOT implement any other 
part of the Dicom base standard (as opposed to other C++ based with open 
license libraries like DCMTK . or CTN).
In particular gdcm is not aware of:

    * the Dicom network file exchange protocol (Query/Retrieve),
    * the Dicom media storage formats,
    * Print, Verification
    * ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.

What gdcm still misses
Among all the features of the dicom part 5 gdcm doesn't implement (yet?)

    * the integration of (optional) overlays on image.
    * a more complete supports of the various Jpeg encodings

Gdcm also still needs

    * an enhanced and simpler API to access the various forms of pixel 
data (e.g. RGB, GrayLevel, RawData...),
    * a decent user's guide (currently, only a partial doxygenation is 
available),
    * the python wrappers to be fixed,
    * a simple wxWidgets Dicom file editor.