wip/gdcm 3.0.10 NetBSD

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard that governs this capability by specifying handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging.

Grassroots DICOM (GDCM) is an implementation of the DICOM standard designed to be open source so that researchers may access clinical data directly. GDCM includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol, both of which should be extended to provide a full set of tools for a researcher or small medical imaging vendor to interface with an existing medical database.

GDCM is an open source implementation of the DICOM standard. It offers some compatibility with ACR-NEMA 1.0 & 2.0 files (raw files). It is written in C++ and offers wrapping to the following target languages (via the use of swig):

Python, C#, Java, PHP (experimental), Perl (experimental).

It attempts to support all possible DICOM image encodings, namely:

RAW, JPEG lossy 8 & 12 bits (ITU-T T.81, ISO/IEC IS 10918-1), JPEG lossless 8-16 bits (ITU-T T.81, ISO/IEC IS 10918-1), JPEG 2000 reversible & irreversible (ITU-T T.800, ISO/IEC IS 15444-1), RLE, Deflated (compression at DICOM Dataset level), JPEG-LS (ITU-T T.87, ISO/IEC IS 14495-1).