pydicom 0.9.6 released

[Darcy Mason]

I'm pleased to announce a new pydicom release package, version 0.9.6,
released on the auspicious date 11/11/11.

This release includes some bug fixes, and an update of the dictionary
to the DICOM 2011 standard. Note, however, that the new keywords
provided in the 2011 dictionary are not yet used; the usual pydicom
naming convention is still in place.

Release notes here: http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/wiki/ReleaseNotes.
Download at http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/downloads/

Regards,
Darcy

P.S. I had originally posted installer files on the download page
about 7 hours ago, but then found some unicode problems on Windows I
hadn't seen previously. If you installed earlier today, please install
again with the current files.

[mohan]

Hi Darcy,

Thanks for the nice work and 0.9.6 release.

Regarding handling dicom files with compressed pixel data, what is
the plan? Please let me know. I can help on this.

As you know the following exception is thrown while handling
compressed pixel data:

NotImplementedError, "Pixel Data is compressed in a format pydicom
does not yet handle. Cannot return array"

With Best Regards,
Mohan Chinnappan

On Nov 11, 4:03 pm, Darcy Mason <darcyma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce a new pydicom release package, version 0.9.6,
> released on the auspicious date 11/11/11.
>
> This release includes some bug fixes, and an update of the dictionary
> to the DICOM 2011 standard. Note, however, that the new keywords
> provided in the 2011 dictionary are not yet used; the usual pydicom
> naming convention is still in place.
>
> Release notes here:http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/wiki/ReleaseNotes.

> Download athttp://code.google.com/p/pydicom/downloads/

[Darcy Mason]

On Nov 25, 7:01 pm, mohan <mchinnap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>...

> Regarding handling dicom files with compressed pixel data, what is
> the  plan? Please let me know. I can help on this.
>

Hi Mohan,

There really isn't a plan for decompression of compressed images. It
has been on the issues list for a long time, but there doesn't seem to
be a lot of interest in making this a priority.

For now, my priorities are to get pydicom to python 3 compatibility,
to continue the conversion to the 2011 DICOM dictionary (switching to
their 'keyword' naming of tags), and fixing a couple of tricky bugs. I
can't see myself having much time for compression in the foreseeable
future.

But help is always welcome. Perhaps if you have a particular
compression type you need to work with, you could try to get something
working just for that. Or, it would even help to have a better idea of
what libraries could be used. A number of possible libraries (or
python code possibilities) are mentioned in the issue:
http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/issues/detail?id=16.

Regards,
Darcy