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# dataset.py
"""Module for Dataset class

Overview of Dicom object model:

Dataset(derived class of Python's dict class)
   
   contains DataElement instances (DataElement is a class with tag, VR, value)
   
      the value can be a Sequence instance (Sequence is derived from Python's list),
                            or just a regular value like a number, string, etc.,
                            or a list of regular values, e.g. a 3d coordinate
            
            Sequence's are a list of Datasets (note recursive nature here)

"""
#
# Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Darcy Mason
# This file is part of pydicom, released under a modified MIT license.
#    See the file license.txt included with this distribution, also
#    available at http://pydicom.googlecode.com
#
import sys
from sys import byteorder
sys_is_little_endian = (byteorder == 'little')
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger('pydicom')
from dicom.datadict import DicomDictionary, dictionaryVR
from dicom.datadict import tag_for_name, all_names_for_tag
from dicom.tag import Tag, BaseTag
from dicom.dataelem import DataElement, DataElement_from_raw, RawDataElement
from dicom.valuerep import is_stringlike
from dicom.UID import NotCompressedPixelTransferSyntaxes
import os.path
import cStringIO, StringIO

import dicom # for write_file
import dicom.charset
import warnings


have_numpy = True

try:
    import numpy
except:
    have_numpy = False

stat_available = True
try:
    from os import stat
except:
    stat_available = False

class PropertyError(Exception):
    """For AttributeErrors caught in a property, so do not go to __getattr__"""
    pass

class Dataset(dict):
    """A Dataset is a collection (dictionary) of Dicom DataElement instances.

    Example of two ways to retrieve or set values:
        
    1. dataset[0x10, 0x10].value --> patient's name
    2. dataset.PatientName --> patient's name

    Example (2) is referred to as *Named tags* in this documentation.
    PatientName is not actually a member of the object, but unknown member
    requests are checked against the dicom dictionary. If the name matches a
    DicomDictionary descriptive string, the corresponding tag is used
    to look up or set the Data Element's value.

    :attribute indentChars: for string display, the characters used to indent for
       nested Data Elements (e.g. sequence items). Default is 3 blank characters.

    """
    indentChars = "   "
    
    def add(self, data_element):
        """Equivalent to dataset[data_element.tag] = data_element."""
        self[data_element.tag] = data_element
    def Add(self, data_element): # remove in v1.0
        """Deprecated -- use add()"""
        msg = ("Dataset.Add() is deprecated and will be removed in pydicom 1.0."
               " Use Dataset.add()")
        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
        self.add(data_element)
        
    def add_new(self, tag, VR, value):
        """Create a new DataElement instance and add it to this Dataset."""
        data_element = DataElement(tag, VR, value)
        self[data_element.tag] = data_element   # use data_element.tag since DataElement verified it

    def AddNew(self, tag, VR, value): #remove in v1.0
        """Deprecated -- use add_new()"""
        msg = ("Dataset.AddNew() is deprecated and will be removed in pydicom 1.0."
               " Use Dataset.add_new()")
        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
        self.add_new(tag, VR, value)
                
    def attribute(self, name): #remove in v1.0
        """Deprecated -- use Dataset.data_element()"""
        warnings.warn("Dataset.attribute() is deprecated and will be removed in pydicom 1.0. Use Dataset.data_element() instead", DeprecationWarning)
        return self.data_element(name)

    def data_element(self, name):
        """Return the full data_element instance for the given descriptive name.

        When using *named tags*, only the value is returned. If you want the
        whole data_element object, for example to change the data_element.VR,
        call this function with the name and the data_element instance is returned."""
        tag = tag_for_name(name)
        if tag:
            return self[tag]
        return None

    def __contains__(self, name):
        """Extend dict.__contains__() to handle *named tags*.

        This is called for code like: ``if 'SliceLocation' in dataset``.

        """
        if is_stringlike(name):
            tag = tag_for_name(name)
        else:
            try:
                tag = Tag(name)
            except:
                return False
        if tag:
            return dict.__contains__(self, tag)
        else:
            return dict.__contains__(self, name) # will no doubt raise an exception

    def decode(self):
        """Apply character set decoding to all data elements.

        See DICOM PS3.5-2008 6.1.1.
        """
        # Find specific character set. 'ISO_IR 6' is default
        # May be multi-valued, but let dicom.charset handle all logic on that
        dicom_character_set = self.get('SpecificCharacterSet', "ISO_IR 6")

        # shortcut to the decode function in dicom.charset
        decode_data_element = dicom.charset.decode

        # sub-function callback for walk(), to decode the chr strings if necessary
        # this simply calls the dicom.charset.decode function
        def decode_callback(ds, data_element):
            decode_data_element(data_element, dicom_character_set)
        # Use the walk function to go through all elements in the dataset and convert them
        self.walk(decode_callback)

    def __delattr__(self, name):
        """Intercept requests to delete an attribute by name, e.g. del ds.name

        If name is a dicom descriptive string (cleaned with CleanName),
        then delete the corresponding tag and data_element.
        Else, delete an instance (python) attribute as any other class would do.

        """
        # First check if is a valid DICOM name and if we have that data element
        tag = tag_for_name(name)
        if tag and tag in self:
            del self[tag]
        # If not a DICOM name (or we don't have it), check for regular instance name
        #   can't do delete directly, that will call __delattr__ again!
        elif name in self.__dict__:
            del self.__dict__[name]
        # Not found, raise an error in same style as python does
        else:
            raise AttributeError, name

    def __dir__(self):
        """___dir__ is used in python >= 2.6 to give a list of attributes
        available in an object, for example used in auto-completion in editors
        or command-line environments.
        """
        import inspect
        meths = set(zip(*inspect.getmembers(Dataset,inspect.isroutine))[0])
        props = set(zip(*inspect.getmembers(Dataset,inspect.isdatadescriptor))[0])
        deprecated = set(('Add', 'AddNew', 'GroupDataset', 'RemovePrivateTags',
                          'SaveAs', 'attribute', 'PixelArray'))
        dicom_names = set(self.dir())
        alldir=sorted((props|meths|dicom_names)-deprecated)
        return alldir

    def dir(self, *filters):
        """Return a list of some or all data_element names, in alphabetical order.

        Intended mainly for use in interactive Python sessions.

        filters -- 0 or more string arguments to the function
                if none provided, dir() returns all data_element names in this Dataset.
                Else dir() will return only those items with one of the strings
                somewhere in the name (case insensitive).

        """
        allnames = []
        for tag, data_element in self.items():
            allnames.extend(all_names_for_tag(tag))
        allnames = [x for x in allnames if x]  # remove blanks - tags without valid names (e.g. private tags)
        # Store found names in a dict, so duplicate names appear only once
        matches = {}
        for filter_ in filters:
            filter_ = filter_.lower()
            match = [x for x in allnames if x.lower().find(filter_) != -1]
            matches.update(dict([(x,1) for x in match]))
        if filters:
            names = sorted(matches.keys())
            return names
        else:
            return sorted(allnames)

    def file_metadata(self): # remove in v1.0
        """Return a Dataset holding only meta information (group 2).

        Only makes sense if this dataset is a whole file dataset.

        """
        import warnings
        msg = ("Dataset.file_metadata() is deprecated and will be removed"
                " in pydicom 1.0. Use FileDataset and its file_meta"
                " attribute instead.")
        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning) 
        return self.group_dataset(2)

    def get(self, key, default=None):
        """Extend dict.get() to handle *named tags*."""
        if is_stringlike(key):
            try:
                return getattr(self, key)
            except AttributeError:
                return default
        else: 
            # is not a string, try to make it into a tag and then hand it 
            # off to the underlying dict            
            if not isinstance(key, BaseTag):
                try:
                    key = Tag(key)
                except:
                    raise TypeError("Dataset.get key must be a string or tag")
        try:
            return_val = self.__getitem__(key)
        except KeyError:
            return_val = default
        return return_val
    
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        """Intercept requests for unknown Dataset python-attribute names.

        If the name matches a Dicom dictionary string (without blanks etc),
        then return the value for the data_element with the corresponding tag.

        """
        # __getattr__ only called if instance cannot find name in self.__dict__
        # So, if name is not a dicom string, then is an error
        tag = tag_for_name(name)
        if tag is None:
            raise AttributeError, "Dataset does not have attribute '%s'." % name
        tag = Tag(tag)
        if tag not in self:
            raise AttributeError, "Dataset does not have attribute '%s'." % name
        else:  # do have that dicom data_element
            return self[tag].value
    
    def __getitem__(self, key):
        """Operator for dataset[key] request."""
        tag = Tag(key)
        data_elem = dict.__getitem__(self, tag)
        
        if isinstance(data_elem, DataElement):
            return data_elem
        elif isinstance(data_elem, tuple):
            # If a deferred read, then go get the value now
            if data_elem.value is None:
                from dicom.filereader import read_deferred_data_element
                data_elem = read_deferred_data_element(self.fileobj_type, self.filename, self.timestamp, data_elem)
            # Hasn't been converted from raw form read from file yet, so do so now:
            self[tag] = DataElement_from_raw(data_elem)
        return dict.__getitem__(self, tag)

    def group_dataset(self, group):
        """Return a Dataset containing only data_elements of a certain group.

        group -- the group part of a dicom (group, element) tag.

        """
        ds = Dataset()
        ds.update(dict(
            [(tag,data_element) for tag,data_element in self.items() if tag.group==group]
                      ))
        return ds
    def GroupDataset(self, group):  # remove in v1.0
        """Deprecated -- use group_dataset()"""
        msg = ("Dataset.GroupDataset is deprecated and will be removed in pydicom 1.0."
               " Use Dataset.group_dataset()")
        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
        self.add_new(tag, VR, value)
    
    # dict.has_key removed in python 3. But should be ok to keep this.
    def has_key(self, key):
        """Extend dict.has_key() to handle *named tags*."""
        return self.__contains__(key)

    # is_big_endian property
    def _getBigEndian(self):
        return not self.is_little_endian
    
    def _setBigEndian(self, value):
        self.is_little_endian = not value
    is_big_endian = property(_getBigEndian, _setBigEndian)

    def __iter__(self):
        """Method to iterate through the dataset, returning data_elements.
        e.g.:
        for data_element in dataset:
            do_something...
        The data_elements are returned in DICOM order,
        i.e. in increasing order by tag value.
        Sequence items are returned as a single data_element; it is up to the
           calling code to recurse into the Sequence items if desired
        """
        # Note this is different than the underlying dict class,
        #        which returns the key of the key:value mapping.
        #   Here the value is returned (but data_element.tag has the key)
        taglist = sorted(self.keys())
        for tag in taglist:
            yield self[tag]

    def _PixelDataNumpy(self):
        """Return a NumPy array of the pixel data.

        NumPy is the most recent numerical package for python. It is used if available.

        :raises TypeError: if no pixel data in this dataset.
        :raises ImportError: if cannot import numpy.

        """
        if not 'PixelData' in self:
            raise TypeError, "No pixel data found in this dataset."

        if not have_numpy:
            msg = "The Numpy package is required to use pixel_array, and numpy could not be imported.\n"
            raise ImportError, msg

        # determine the type used for the array
        need_byteswap = (self.is_little_endian != sys_is_little_endian)

        # Make NumPy format code, e.g. "uint16", "int32" etc
        # from two pieces of info:
        #    self.PixelRepresentation -- 0 for unsigned, 1 for signed; 
        #    self.BitsAllocated -- 8, 16, or 32
        format_str = '%sint%d' % (('u', '')[self.PixelRepresentation],
                                  self.BitsAllocated)
        try:
            numpy_format = numpy.dtype(format_str)
        except TypeError:
            raise TypeError("Data type not understood by NumPy: "
                            "format='%s', PixelRepresentation=%d, BitsAllocated=%d" % (
                            numpy_format, self.PixelRepresentation, self.BitsAllocated))
        
        # Have correct Numpy format, so create the NumPy array
        arr = numpy.fromstring(self.PixelData, numpy_format)
        
        # XXX byte swap - may later handle this in read_file!!?
        if need_byteswap:
            arr.byteswap(True)  # True means swap in-place, don't make a new copy
        # Note the following reshape operations return a new *view* onto arr, but don't copy the data
        if 'NumberOfFrames' in self and self.NumberOfFrames > 1:
            if self.SamplesPerPixel > 1:
                arr = arr.reshape(self.SamplesPerPixel, self.NumberOfFrames, self.Rows, self.Columns)
            else:
                arr = arr.reshape(self.NumberOfFrames, self.Rows, self.Columns)
        else:
            if self.SamplesPerPixel > 1:
                if self.BitsAllocated == 8:
                    arr = arr.reshape(self.SamplesPerPixel, self.Rows, self.Columns)
                else:
                    raise NotImplementedError, "This code only handles SamplesPerPixel > 1 if Bits Allocated = 8"
            else:
                arr = arr.reshape(self.Rows, self.Columns)
        return arr

    # PixelArray property
    def _getPixelArray(self):
        # Check if pixel data is in a form we know how to make into an array
        # XXX uses file_meta here, should really only be thus for FileDataset
        if self.file_meta.TransferSyntaxUID not in NotCompressedPixelTransferSyntaxes :
            raise NotImplementedError, "Pixel Data is compressed in a format pydicom does not yet handle. Cannot return array"

        # Check if already have converted to a NumPy array
        # Also check if self.PixelData has changed. If so, get new NumPy array
        alreadyHave = True
        if not hasattr(self, "_PixelArray"):
            alreadyHave = False
        elif self._pixel_id != id(self.PixelData):
            alreadyHave = False
        if not alreadyHave:
            self._PixelArray = self._PixelDataNumpy()
            self._pixel_id = id(self.PixelData) # is this guaranteed to work if memory is re-used??
        return self._PixelArray
    def _get_pixel_array(self):
        try:
            return self._getPixelArray()
        except AttributeError:
            t, e, tb = sys.exc_info()
            raise PropertyError("AttributeError in pixel_array property: " + \
                            e.args[0]), None, tb
    pixel_array = property(_get_pixel_array)
    PixelArray = pixel_array # for backwards compatibility -- remove in v1.0

    # Format strings spec'd according to python string formatting options
    #    See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations
    default_element_format =  "%(tag)s %(name)-35.35s %(VR)s: %(repval)s"
    default_sequence_element_format = "%(tag)s %(name)-35.35s %(VR)s: %(repval)s"
    
    def formatted_lines(self, element_format=default_element_format,
                        sequence_element_format=default_sequence_element_format,
                        indent_format=None):
        """A generator to give back a formatted string representing each line
        one at a time. Example:
            for line in dataset.formatted_lines("%(name)s=%(repval)s", "SQ:%(name)s=%(repval)s"):
                print line
        See the source code for default values which illustrate some of the names that can be used in the
        format strings
        indent_format -- not used in current version. Placeholder for future functionality.
        """
        for data_element in self.iterall():
            # Get all the attributes possible for this data element (e.g. gets descriptive text name too)
            # This is the dictionary of names that can be used in the format string
            elem_dict = dict()
            for x in dir(data_element):
                if not x.startswith("_"):
                    get_x = getattr(data_element, x)
                    if callable(get_x):
                        get_x = get_x()
                    elem_dict[x] = get_x
            # Commented out below is much less verbose version of above dict for python >= 2.5
            # elem_dict = dict([(x, getattr(data_element,x)() if callable(getattr(data_element,x))
                                    # else getattr(data_element,x))
                                    # for x in dir(data_element) if not x.startswith("_")])
            if data_element.VR == "SQ":
                yield sequence_element_format % elem_dict
            else:
                yield element_format % elem_dict

    def _PrettyStr(self, indent=0, topLevelOnly=False):
        """Return a string of the data_elements in this dataset, with indented levels.

        This private method is called by the __str__() method
        for handling print statements or str(dataset), and the __repr__() method.
        It is also used by top(), which is the reason for the topLevelOnly flag.
        This function recurses, with increasing indentation levels.

        """
        strings = []
        indentStr = self.indentChars * indent
        nextIndentStr = self.indentChars *(indent+1)
        for data_element in self:
            if data_element.VR == "SQ":   # a sequence
                strings.append(indentStr + str(data_element.tag) + "  %s   %i item(s) ---- " % ( data_element.description(),len(data_element.value)))
                if not topLevelOnly:
                    for dataset in data_element.value:
                        strings.append(dataset._PrettyStr(indent+1))
                        strings.append(nextIndentStr + "---------")
            else:
                strings.append(indentStr + repr(data_element))
        return "\n".join(strings)

    def remove_private_tags(self):
        """Remove all Dicom private tags in this dataset and those contained within."""
        def RemoveCallback(dataset, data_element):
            """Internal method to use as callback to walk() method."""
            if data_element.tag.is_private:
                # can't del self[tag] - won't be right dataset on recursion
                del dataset[data_element.tag]
        self.walk(RemoveCallback)
    RemovePrivateTags = remove_private_tags # for backwards compatibility

    def save_as(self, filename, WriteLikeOriginal=True):
        """Write the dataset to a file.

        filename -- full path and filename to save the file to
        WriteLikeOriginal -- see dicom.filewriter.write_file for info on this parameter.
        """
        dicom.write_file(filename, self, WriteLikeOriginal)

    SaveAs = save_as  # for backwards compatibility

    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        """Intercept any attempts to set a value for an instance attribute.

        If name is a dicom descriptive string (cleaned with CleanName),
        then set the corresponding tag and data_element.
        Else, set an instance (python) attribute as any other class would do.

        """
        tag = tag_for_name(name)
        if tag is not None:  # successfully mapped name to a tag
            if tag not in self:  # don't have this tag yet->create the data_element instance
                VR = dictionaryVR(tag)
                data_element = DataElement(tag, VR, value)
            else:  # already have this data_element, just changing its value
                data_element = self[tag]
                data_element.value = value
            # Now have data_element - store it in this dict
            self[tag] = data_element
        else:  # name not in dicom dictionary - setting a non-dicom instance attribute
            # XXX note if user mis-spells a dicom data_element - no error!!!
            self.__dict__[name] = value

    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
        """Operator for dataset[key]=value. Check consistency, and deal with private tags"""
        if not isinstance(value, (DataElement, RawDataElement)): # ok if is subclass, e.g. DeferredDataElement
            raise TypeError, "Dataset contents must be DataElement instances.\n" + \
                  "To set a data_element value use data_element.value=val"
        tag = Tag(value.tag)
        if key != tag:
            raise ValueError, "data_element.tag must match the dictionary key"

        data_element = value
        if tag.is_private:
            # See PS 3.5-2008 section 7.8.1 (p. 44) for how blocks are reserved
            logging.debug("Setting private tag %r" % tag)
            private_block = tag.elem >> 8
            private_creator_tag = Tag(tag.group, private_block)
            if private_creator_tag in self and tag != private_creator_tag:
                if isinstance(data_element, RawDataElement):
                    data_element = DataElement_from_raw(data_element)
                data_element.private_creator = self[private_creator_tag].value
        dict.__setitem__(self, tag, data_element)

    def __str__(self):
        """Handle str(dataset)."""
        return self._PrettyStr()

    def top(self):
        """Show the DICOM tags, but only the top level; do not recurse into Sequences"""
        return self._PrettyStr(topLevelOnly=True)

    def trait_names(self):
        """Return a list of valid names for auto-completion code
        Used in IPython, so that data element names can be found
        and offered for autocompletion on the IPython command line
        """
        return self.__dir__() # can't use dir(self) for python <2.6

    def update(self, dictionary):
        """Extend dict.update() to handle *named tags*."""
        for key, value in dictionary.items():
            if is_stringlike(key):
                setattr(self, key, value)
            else:
                self[Tag(key)] = value

    def iterall(self):
        """Iterate through the dataset, yielding all data elements.

        Unlike Dataset.__iter__, this *does* recurse into sequences,
        and so returns all data elements as if the file were "flattened".
        """
        for data_element in self:
            yield data_element
            if data_element.VR == "SQ":
                sequence = data_element.value
                for dataset in sequence:
                    for elem in dataset.iterall():
                        yield elem

    def walk(self, callback):
        """Call the given function for all dataset data_elements (recurses).

        Go through all data_elements, recursing into sequences and their datasets,
        calling the callback function at each data_element (including the SQ data_element).
        This can be used to perform an operation on certain types of data_elements.
        For example, RemovePrivateTags() finds all private tags and deletes them.

        callback -- a callable method which takes two arguments: a dataset, and
                    a data_element belonging to that dataset.

        DataElements will come back in dicom order (by increasing tag number
        within their dataset)

        """
        taglist = sorted(self.keys())
        for tag in taglist:
            data_element = self[tag]
            callback(self, data_element)  # self = this Dataset
            # 'tag in self' below needed in case data_element was deleted in callback
            if tag in self and data_element.VR == "SQ":
                sequence = data_element.value
                for dataset in sequence:
                    dataset.walk(callback)

    __repr__ = __str__

class FileDataset(Dataset):
    def __init__(self, filename_or_obj, dataset, preamble=None, file_meta=None, 
                        is_implicit_VR=True, is_little_endian=True):
        """Initialize a dataset read from a DICOM file

        :param filename: full path and filename to the file. Use None if is a StringIO.
        :param dataset: some form of dictionary, usually a Dataset from read_dataset()
        :param preamble: the 128-byte DICOM preamble
        :param file_meta: the file meta info dataset, as returned by _read_file_meta,
                or an empty dataset if no file meta information is in the file
        :param is_implicit_VR: True if implicit VR transfer syntax used; False if explicit VR. Default is True.
        :param is_little_endian: True if little-endian transfer syntax used; False if big-endian. Default is True. 
        """
        Dataset.__init__(self, dataset)
        self.preamble = preamble
        self.file_meta = file_meta
        self.is_implicit_VR = is_implicit_VR
        self.is_little_endian = is_little_endian
        if isinstance(filename_or_obj, basestring):
            self.filename = filename_or_obj
            self.fileobj_type = file
        else:
            # Note next line uses __class__ due to gzip using old-style classes 
            #    until after python2.5 (or 2.6?)
            # Should move to using type(filename_or_obj) when possible
            # See http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html: 
            #   "if x is an instance of an old-style class, then x .__class__ 
            #   designates the class of x, but type(x) is always <type 'instance'>"
            self.fileobj_type = filename_or_obj.__class__
            if getattr(filename_or_obj, "name", False):
                self.filename = filename_or_obj.name  
            elif getattr(filename_or_obj, "filename", False): #gzip python <2.7?
                self.filename = filename_or_obj.filename
            else:
                self.filename = None # e.g. came from StringIO or something file-like
        self.timestamp = None
        if stat_available and self.filename and os.path.exists(self.filename):
            statinfo = stat(self.filename)
            self.timestamp = statinfo.st_mtime