Roadmap

DCMfx has no formal roadmap, but future work is likely to include the following:

• Pixel data handling

  • Decode High-Throughput JPEG 2000 pixel data with OpenJPH as an alternative to the existing decoding with OpenJPEG
  • Change to libjpeg-turbo for JPEG Baseline 8-bit, JPEG Extended 12-bit, and JPEG Lossless.
  • Transcode multi-frame pixel data into H.264/H.265 transfer syntaxes
  • Resize/rotate/flip pixel data while transcoding
  • Allow fast cropping of JPEG pixel data when the crop is aligned to compression blocks
  • Crop pixel data overlays as well, in addition to the pixel data

• CLI:

  • Native use of S3/Azure/GCP/WebDAV URLs via object_store crate
  • get-document command:
    • New command to get an encapsulated document such as a PDF
  • get-pixel-data command:
    • --crop argument to crop output pixel data
  • list command:
    • Make all File Meta Information data elements selectable, not just the transfer syntax
    • Filter listed DICOMs by data element value
  • modify command:
    • --merge and --merge-json arguments to merge DICOM data sets together
    • --select-frames argument to transcode only specific frames
    • --replace-pixel-data to replace a DICOM's pixel data
    • --create-basic-offset-table to add a basic offset table and fragments to the pixel data if absent

• Decode JPEG-LS pixel data on WASM

• DIMSE networking

• Decoding and encoding of waveform data

• Extraction of DICOM structured report data

• Creation of DICOMDIR indexes