[Novalug] Hospital CDs -- and ImageMagick??

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Thu Aug 13 12:24:25 EDT 2009


On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Beartooth wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jason van Gumster wrote:
>
>> So is the problem here the ability to view/convert DICOM images or the
>> fact that the CD you have doesn't specify the formats of each file and
>> assumes that you'll instead use an integrated Windows-only image
>> viewer?
>
> 	Errr... duhhh...
>
> 	Dunno if more specifics will help, but here they are. On the 15th I 
> had what was diagnosed as a "temporary ischemic attack" (TIA), known 
> colloquially as a mini-stroke. These commonly prefigure a real stroke -- a 
> massive one, that kills or totally disables the patient -- by one or two 
> days. The emergency room sent me to the ultra-high-tech cardiac ward for a 
> little over two days, and during that time also subjected me to various 
> scans.
>
> 	All those are on the CD I have; another (a CT scan with dye, at 
> another hospital), which I don't (yet) have, seems to have refined and in 
> refining contradicted them. Something else was most likely mimicking a 
> mini-stroke; the question is what, and what to do about it.
>
> 	My purpose is to get a look at the scans, so that I can better 
> understand what a plethora of doctors are telling me -- and at least make my 
> own guess whether I need get my affairs in order. Looking may not help much, 
> I know; I'm no medical. But it can't hurt.
>
>> In the case of the former, perhaps you should investigate using image 
>> viewers specifically designed to view DICOM images like (after a quick 
>> Google-hunt) kradview (http://www.orcero.org/irbis/kradview/)
>
> 	I downloaded that one and started following directions -- till I got 
> as far as ./configure; there it choked, ending up with
>
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (headers and libraries) 
> not found. Please check your installation!
> For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
> [root@Hbsk2 kradview-1.1.0]#
>
> 	What is this Qt? Seems like I was just telling somebody else I didn't 
> know Qt from a spotted toad .... And what log do they mean?
>

According to the Ubuntu Synaptic Package manager:

Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework.  Qt's primary feature
is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.

Here is a wiki page about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)

and here is the web site

http://qt.nokia.com/



> or MRIcron 
>> (http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricron/). I don't think either of these 
>> are nicely packaged for any distro, but it shouldn't be tough to use them.
>
> 	That one buffaloes me right at the outset :
>
> Linux
> 32-bit (QT widgetset)
> 32-bit (GTK1 widgetset)
> 32-bit (GTK2 widgetset)
> 64-bit (GTK1 widgetset)
> 64-bit (GTK2 widgetset)
>
> 	(There goes that Qt again!)
>
>> If the latter case is the issue, then we can only hope that the files
>> on disc are raw DICOM files. A quick filesize check can give you a good
>> hint at which files might be the ones you want (they should be large
>> and generally consistent in size... it also helps if you know exactly
>> how many of these images should be on disk, because then you can
>> count). The worst-case scenario would be that these images are
>> packed/archived together in some unknown format. In that case, the best
>> you can do is hope that it's a standard format and try to guess what it
>> might be (zip, rar, 7z, tar, etc.)... or use the accursed integrated
>> viewer (which seems to be the solution you're aiming for).
>
> 	Most of that is still beyond me. /media/CDH is the folder that Fedora 
> automounts from the CD. It has 1,166 items, totaling 252.2 MB; they have a 
> huge variety of different extensions, including many I don't recall ever 
> having heard before.
>
>> This email was a touch longer than I'd expected, but hopefully there's a 
>> nugget or two in there that you may find useful.
>
> 	Somewhere, where I don't seem to be able to find it now, I hit a 
> message saying that the software on the CD was out of date, 
> two-point-something, whereas three-point-something was out ...
>
> 	Between you and a couple people on gmane's wine.user list, I'm 
> beginning to see through a glass darkly what I'm up against; that is 
> progress, and I thank you all.
>
>

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