0004371: Improve DICOM loading error message

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004371	Slicer4	Module DICOM	public	2017-05-08 11:04	2018-05-29 23:27

Reporter	lassoan	Assigned To	pieper
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Product Version	Slicer 4.8.1
Target Version	backlog	Fixed in Version

Summary	0004371: Improve DICOM loading error message
Description	When an unknown DICOM data item is attempted to be loaded, Slicer displays an error popup: "Could not load: 1365768: Unnamed Series as a Scalar Volume" Log (and warning column in advanced view) contains this message: "Warning in DICOM plugin Scalar Volume when examining loadable 1365768: Unnamed Series: There is no pixel data attribute for the DICOM objects, but they might be readable as secondary capture images. Reference image in series does not contain geometry information. Please use caution." This is caused by the fact that if none of the DICOM plugins recognize a series then the scalar volume plugin attempts to load it. It could be better to not let the scalar volume plugin attempt to load the item and/or make the error message and logs more informative (for example, include metadata such as image modality, SOP class UID, etc).
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pieper 2017-05-08 12:09 administrator ~0014475	We need to have example deidentified datasets representing the types of files we expect to load correctly. Can the user or others help assemble a database for testing? It would also help to list out the properties of files that we know should be trivially rejected. The user should be alerted for anything in the gray zone, and given the option to try loading anyway. We may also want to offer to run the DICOMPatcher for data that doesn't work in the normal path.

lassoan 2018-05-29 23:27 developer ~0015784	Retargeting stale issues to backlog.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-05-08 11:04	lassoan	New Issue
2017-05-08 11:04	lassoan	Status	new => assigned
2017-05-08 11:04	lassoan	Assigned To	=> pieper
2017-05-08 12:09	pieper	Note Added: 0014475
2017-05-08 12:09	pieper	Status	assigned => acknowledged
2018-05-29 23:27	lassoan	Target Version	=> backlog
2018-05-29 23:27	lassoan	Note Added: 0015784