On Monday, May 13, 2013 11:41:17 AM UTC-4, Steve wrote:
> I believe that the MINT project (
https://code.google.com/p/medical-imaging-network-transport/) used Google Protocol Buffers to store header data about a DICOM study. The context there was to store a record of all the headers for a given study in a compact format that could be retrieved by a client via rest services.
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> It was very loosely based on the ideas behind the streaming mechanism in the ClearCanvas ImageServer, and I believe the google protocol buffer code was only storing differences in headers. Ie, it would store a reference sop's header for a series, then just the differences for other sops within a series.
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Thanks, Steve. I looked at the MINT site, but couldn't find any code relating to
protocol buffers.