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Cornerstone3D used one VOI model: a window (0028,1050 and 0028,1051) with a
linear ramp. Two DICOM attributes were absent from that model.

  • VOI LUT Function (0028,1056) selects the shape of the window. The value
    SIGMOID and the value LINEAR_EXACT gave a LINEAR display, and some shapes
    of the attribute made the render throw "Invalid VOI LUT function".
  • VOI LUT Sequence (0028,3010) is a full VOI transformation, and it replaces
    the window and the function (PS3.3 C.11.2.1). No GPU path read it. Thus a
    CR, a DX or an MG image that carries its own curve showed a flat linear
    window. These curves are strongly non linear, so the display was
    incorrect and not only different.

Some other defects around the VOI became visible with this work, and this PR
corrects them also.

Changes & Results

Metadata and the loader

  • Normalize the VOI LUT Function across the providers: a string, a single
    element array, a padded value, a value of the incorrect case, and the key
    SAMPLED_SIGMOID. The code indexed the string, which made "S" from
    "SIGMOID".
  • Normalize the VOI LUT Sequence across wadouri, naturalized dcmjs and raw
    DICOMweb JSON, and give it to the renderers on image.voiLUT. Read the
    descriptor of a LUT with the pixel representation, read the entries as
    unsigned, and read 8 bit entries that the file holds one for each byte.
  • Read the window from the Frame VOI LUT macro of an enhanced multiframe
    SOP. The window is one level below the root there, so the viewports used
    the minimum and the maximum of the image.
  • Expose the sequence from the wadors provider and from
    @cornerstonejs/metadata.
  • Apply no window, no VOI LUT and no rescale to a color image. These
    attributes are for a monochrome image (C.11.2.1.2.2), and a grey window
    on the range 0 to 255 of the samples of a color image gives a very bright
    display.

The stack viewport

  • Build the transfer function from the VOI LUT Sequence, and stretch the
    curve over the current range. Thus window level reshapes the curve of the
    file and does not replace it, as the sampled sigmoid already did.
  • Fall back to LINEAR with one warning for an unknown function. The code
    threw.
  • Separate the two nodes of a window of the width 1. Coincident nodes stay
    coincident, because vtk.js rescales the nodes, and each later change of
    the window then divided by zero.
  • Keep the prescaled PT range 0 to 5 when the metadata also carries a
    window.
  • Keep the sequence when an application sets the VOI LUT Function to the
    value that the image has. An absent (0028,1056) becomes LINEAR, and
    getProperties gives that value to the application. Thus an application
    that read the properties and set them again stopped the curve.
  • Keep the colormap. A colormap fills the transfer function with its own
    colors, so it stops the curve of a sequence and the curve of a sigmoid.
    Before, one window level drag on an image that has a sequence made the
    image grey again.

The volume viewports

  • Read the VOI LUT Function and the VOI LUT Sequence of the file, as the
    stack viewport does. A SIGMOID series got a sigmoid range with a linear
    transfer function, and no volume path read a sequence.
  • Take the window from the nearest instance that has one, and keep the
    function with the window. The middle instance can have no metadata.
  • Ignore the window and the curve of a prescaled PT volume. Both are in the
    unscaled counts, and the volume holds SUV.
  • Store the requested function before the transfer function is made. The
    old order used the previous function, so a request for SIGMOID had no
    effect until the next change of the VOI.
  • Normalize the requested function, as the stack viewport does.

The generic viewports (PLANAR_NEXT)

  • Use one rule for the sequence on all the viewport types: a function that
    is different from the function of the image stops the sequence, and a
    function that is equal to it does not.
  • Give the volume paths the function and the sequence, on the GPU and on
    the CPU.
  • Map VOILUTFunction onto the presentation of a compatibility viewport. The
    property had no path, so a request for SIGMOID did nothing.

The CPU path

  • Implement LINEAR (C.11.2.1.2.1), LINEAR_EXACT (C.11.2.1.3.2) and SIGMOID
    (C.11.2.1.3.1), and permit setVOILUTFunction under CPU rendering.
  • Treat a window of the width 1 as the threshold that the standard defines.
  • Stretch the curve of a sequence over the window, as on the GPU. Window
    level did nothing on the CPU for a file that has a sequence.
  • Take the number of bits of the entries from the largest entry with a
    division and not with a shift. A shift by a negative count shifts by 31
    in JavaScript, so a LUT whose largest entry is below 128 gave a black
    image.

The API

New:

  • useVOILUTSequence on the properties of the stack viewports, the volume
    viewports and the generic viewports. The value false ignores the curve
    of the file.
  • voiLUTSequenceApplied on the detail of the VOI_MODIFIED event. A
    colorbar that draws a ramp from the range and the function needs to know
    that the viewport shows a curve.
  • The utilities isRenderableVOILUT, getVOILUTSequenceRange,
    createVOILUTSampler, sampleVOILUT, invertVOILUTSample,
    getVOILUTOutputScale, normalizeVOILUTFunction and
    getValidVOILUTFunction.
  • A voiLutFunction example. It loads a local DICOM P10 file and shows how
    its VOI resolves on the GPU path and on the CPU path.

Removed:

  • The second getValidVOILUTFunction in buildMetadata. That one tested for
    a member of the enum, so it made LINEAR from the shapes that the
    providers give. The name stays available from the same path.

Other

  • The tools that work in a display intensity sample the curve of the
    sequence. A linear ramp did not agree with the pixels on the screen.
  • The migration notes give the changes that an application can see.

Known limits

  • LUT Data that a DICOMweb server gives as a BulkDataURI is not resolved.
    The metadata provider is synchronous, and a bulkdata reference needs a
    request.
  • A sequence of more than one item uses the first usable item. C.11.2.1
    permits this choice, but an application cannot select another item and the
    LUT Explanation is not available.
  • A Modality LUT Sequence is applied on the CPU path only. On the GPU path
    the values stay the stored values, and the input domain of a VOI LUT
    Sequence is the output of the modality LUT.

Fixes #938
Fixes #985
Fixes #1141
Fixes #1767
Fixes #1806
Fixes #2104
Fixes #2236
Fixes #2520
Fixes #2716
Fixes #2733
Fixes #2745
Fixes #2844

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    semantic-release format and guidelines.

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  • New Features

    • Added VOI LUT Sequence support for GPU and CPU rendering.
    • Added LINEAR_EXACT and SIGMOID VOI LUT functions.
    • Added enhanced multi-frame DICOM VOI metadata support.
    • Added a demonstration for comparing VOI rendering modes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved VOI range calculation, LUT validation, caching, and fallback behavior.
    • Improved handling of empty, invalid, and zero-width LUT data.
    • Preserved VOI settings when switching rendering modes or replacing images.
    • Improved normalization of VOI LUT metadata and sequence formats.

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The PR adds DICOM VOI LUT Sequence and VOI LUT Function support across metadata loading, CPU and GPU rendering, planar presentation, volume VOI initialization, tests, and an interactive example.

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VOI LUT support

Layer / File(s) Summary
VOI metadata ingestion
packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/..., packages/metadata/src/utilities/modules/voiLut.ts, packages/dicomImageLoader/src/__tests__/*
Extracts nested and root VOI metadata. Normalizes LUT sequences and VOI LUT Function values.
Shared VOI contracts and utilities
packages/core/src/types/*, packages/core/src/utilities/...
Adds VOI function normalization, exact-linear and sigmoid conversions, LUT range extraction, and GPU transfer-function construction.
CPU VOI rendering and caching
packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/cpuFallback/rendering/..., packages/core/test/utilities/*
Applies VOI LUT Sequences and functions in CPU rendering. Updates cache invalidation and validates edge cases.
GPU and planar VOI application
packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/StackViewport.ts, packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/planarImageRendering.ts, packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/GenericViewport/Planar/*
Selects image LUT Sequences or analytic functions, rebuilds transfer functions when required, and forwards LUT data during presentation updates.
Volume defaults and example
packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/setDefaultVolumeVOI.ts, packages/tools/examples/voiLutFunction/*, utils/ExampleRunner/example-info.json
Updates volume VOI initialization and adds an example for comparing VOI functions, LUT Sequences, and CPU/GPU rendering.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to d4908

This PR expands VOI LUT handling across CPU, GPU, and DICOM metadata paths, but two display-correctness risks remain: some WADO-URI LUTs may be decoded with negative or truncated values, and prescaled PET images may apply a VOI LUT over the wrong intensity range. These issues should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DICOMLoader
  participant Image
  participant StackViewport
  participant Renderer
  DICOMLoader->>Image: normalize VOI metadata
  Image->>StackViewport: provide VOI LUT Sequence and function
  StackViewport->>Renderer: create and apply VOI transfer function
  Renderer-->>StackViewport: update rendered image
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address VOI rendering and normalization [#938, #985, #2520, #2844], default VOI handling [#1767, #2104, #2716], and edge cases [#2236, #2733, #2745].
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packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/planarImageRendering.ts (1)

143-150: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Give a renderable VOI LUT Sequence precedence over the PT fallback.

For a prescaled PT image with image.voiLUT, this function returns 0-5 before it reads the LUT domain. applyPlanarImagePresentation() then stretches the LUT over 0-5, which changes the DICOM-defined mapping.

Check isRenderableVOILUT(image.voiLUT) before isPTPrescaledWithSUV(image). This also matches StackViewport._getInitialVOIRange().

Proposed fix
 export function getDefaultImageVOIRange(image: IImage): VOIRange | undefined {
+  if (isRenderableVOILUT(image.voiLUT)) {
+    return getVOILUTSequenceRange(image.voiLUT);
+  }
+
   if (isPTPrescaledWithSUV(image)) {
     return { lower: 0, upper: 5 };
   }
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-  if (isRenderableVOILUT(image.voiLUT)) {
-    return getVOILUTSequenceRange(image.voiLUT);
-  }
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In `@packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/planarImageRendering.ts` around
lines 143 - 150, In the range-selection logic, check
isRenderableVOILUT(image.voiLUT) before isPTPrescaledWithSUV(image), returning
getVOILUTSequenceRange(image.voiLUT) whenever a renderable LUT exists. Preserve
the 0–5 PT fallback only for prescaled SUV images without a renderable VOI LUT.
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In
`@packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/cpuFallback/rendering/getVOILut.ts`:
- Around line 41-49: Update the LUT factory around the width calculation and
returned modalityLutValue function to handle windowWidth === 1 as a threshold
operation, returning Y_MIN when the input is at or below windowCenter - 0.5 and
Y_MAX when it is above that threshold. Preserve the existing continuous VOI-LUT
calculation for widths greater than 1, including fractional window centers.

In
`@packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/cpuFallback/rendering/renderColorImage.ts`:
- Around line 42-45: Update the fast-path eligibility in getRenderCanvas so the
source canvas is reused only when the normalized viewport voiLUTFunction is
LINEAR; ensure SIGMOID and LINEAR_EXACT continue through LUT rendering even for
identity window dimensions.

In `@packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/setDefaultVolumeVOI.ts`:
- Around line 169-170: Update the VOI metadata validation in setDefaultVolumeVOI
so windowCenter equal to 0 is accepted as valid rather than treated as missing;
use an existence/nullish check for windowCenter while preserving the existing
validation for windowWidth and the subsequent VOI handling.

In `@packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/StackViewport.ts`:
- Around line 888-889: Update resetProperties() to restore this.VOILUTFunction
from this.csImage.voiLUTFunction before calling _resetProperties(), alongside
clearing voiLUTFunctionSetByUser, so reset returns to the image’s VOI LUT
Function.
- Around line 1405-1412: Update the CPU branch of the VOILUT function setter to
clear viewport.voiLUT when an explicit VOILUTFunction is applied, ensuring
getLut/getVOILUT uses the selected function instead of the image VOI LUT
Sequence. When VOI properties are reset, restore viewport.voiLUT from
image.voiLUT while preserving the existing invalidation and setVOI behavior.

In `@packages/core/src/utilities/createVOILUTSequenceTransferFunction.ts`:
- Around line 124-140: Update createVOILUTSequenceTransferFunction so LUT
discontinuities are preserved instead of being smoothed by fixed-rate step
sampling and linear interpolation; use a sampled lookup representation or retain
every transition needed to reproduce the original LUT values. Add a regression
test covering a step transition that would otherwise fall between sampled
indices, while preserving exact LUT-domain endpoints.

In `@packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/normalizeVOILUTSequence.ts`:
- Around line 112-118: Update normalizeVOILUTSequence around descriptor and data
parsing so LUTDescriptor is resolved before binary LUTData decoding; when
descriptor[2] is 8, decode InlineBinary or ArrayBuffer data as one 8-bit entry
per byte, and use 16-bit decoding for 16-bit LUTs, preserving existing
typed/value-array fallbacks.

In
`@packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/wadouri/metaData/metaDataProvider.ts`:
- Around line 241-244: Update getLUTs and its LUT decoding path so only
firstValueMapped uses the input pixel representation, while LUT Data is always
decoded as unsigned; interpret a zero LUT entry count as 65536 rather than
65535, preserving the final entry for full-size LUTs.

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In `@packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/planarImageRendering.ts`:
- Around line 143-150: In the range-selection logic, check
isRenderableVOILUT(image.voiLUT) before isPTPrescaledWithSUV(image), returning
getVOILUTSequenceRange(image.voiLUT) whenever a renderable LUT exists. Preserve
the 0–5 PT fallback only for prescaled SUV images without a renderable VOI LUT.
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  • packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/cpuFallback/rendering/doesImageNeedToBeRendered.ts
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  • packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/cpuFallback/rendering/renderColorImage.ts
  • packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/cpuFallback/rendering/saveLastRendered.ts
  • packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/planarImageRendering.ts
  • packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/setDefaultVolumeVOI.ts
  • packages/core/src/types/CPUFallbackLUT.ts
  • packages/core/src/types/CPUFallbackRenderingTools.ts
  • packages/core/src/types/CPUFallbackViewport.ts
  • packages/core/src/types/IImage.ts
  • packages/core/src/utilities/createLinearRGBTransferFunction.ts
  • packages/core/src/utilities/createVOILUTSequenceTransferFunction.ts
  • packages/core/src/utilities/getVOIRangeFromWindowLevel.ts
  • packages/core/src/utilities/index.ts
  • packages/core/src/utilities/voiLUTFunction.ts
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  • packages/dicomImageLoader/src/__tests__/wadouriDataSetLayer.spec.ts
  • packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/createImage.ts
  • packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/normalizeVOILUTSequence.ts
  • packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/wadors/metaData/metaDataProvider.ts
  • packages/dicomImageLoader/src/imageLoader/wadouri/metaData/metaDataProvider.ts
  • packages/metadata/src/utilities/modules/voiLut.ts
  • packages/tools/examples/voiLutFunction/index.ts
  • utils/ExampleRunner/example-info.json

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@sedghi @wayfarer3130 can you have a look ? It should fix a bunch of reported issues.

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daker added 2 commits August 14, 2026 23:54
Adds full DICOM VOI LUT Function (0028,1056) support, applies the VOI
LUT Sequence (0028,3010) on the GPU path, and fixes the VOI defects
around them.

- Normalize 0028,1056 across provider shapes (string,
  single element array, padded/mixed case) instead of indexing the
  string, which turned "SIGMOID" into "S"
- Fall back to LINEAR with a warning on an unknown VOI LUT
  Function rather than throwing "Invalid VOI LUT function"
- Build the transfer function from the VOI LUT
  Sequence so CR/DX/MG images that rely on their VOI LUT stop
  rendering as a flat linear window
- Separate the coincident nodes of a zero width window, so
  a WW=1 frame no longer leaves a stuck step-function LUT that survives
  every later voi change
- Keep the prescaled PT 0-5 default when the metadata also
  carries a window, matching the stack viewport
- Take the window from the nearest imageId that has one
  instead of only the middle one, whose metadata may not be registered
- Keep the VOI LUT Function attached to the window in
  setDefaultVolumeVOI, which dropped it and windowed LINEAR_EXACT and
  SIGMOID volumes as LINEAR
- Implement LINEAR, LINEAR_EXACT (C.11.2.1.3.2) and SIGMOID
  (C.11.2.1.3.1) on the CPU fallback path, and allow
  setVOILUTFunction under CPU rendering
- Stretch the VOI LUT Sequence curve over the current range so
  window level reshapes it, as the sampled sigmoid already does;
  requesting a VOI LUT Function opts out
- Normalize the sequence across wadouri, naturalized dcmjs and
  raw DICOMweb JSON, and expose it from wadors and
  @cornerstonejs/metadata
- Add a voiLutFunction example that loads a local DICOM P10 and
  shows how its VOI resolves on the GPU and CPU paths
- Read the window from the Frame VOI LUT macro of enhanced
  multiframe SOPs, which wadouri left nested one level below the root
  so viewports fell back to the image min/max

Fixes cornerstonejs#938
Fixes cornerstonejs#985
Fixes cornerstonejs#1141
Fixes cornerstonejs#1767
Fixes cornerstonejs#1806
Fixes cornerstonejs#2104
Fixes cornerstonejs#2236
Fixes cornerstonejs#2520
Fixes cornerstonejs#2716
Fixes cornerstonejs#2733
Fixes cornerstonejs#2745
Fixes cornerstonejs#2844
…images

Windowing and VOI LUT attributes only apply to monochrome images
(DICOM PS3.3 C.11.2.1.2.2), but createImage applied them to any image
carrying them. A color instance with RescaleSlope/Intercept, a window,
a VOILUTFunction or a VOI/Modality LUT Sequence rendered wrong -
typically blown out, since the grayscale range is nowhere near the
[0, 255] range of the color samples.

Color images now get the identity modality transform, no prescaling
and no VOI at all, leaving the existing 256/128 identity window as the
sole VOI source. This matters more since VOI LUT Sequence support
landed: StackViewport now derives its initial VOI range from
image.voiLUT and honours non LINEAR voiLUTFunction on the CPU path,
neither of which checks image.color.
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The tag VOI LUT Function (0028,1056) applies to the window, not to a VOI LUT
Sequence, but an absent tag becomes LINEAR and getProperties() gives that value
to the application. An app that keeps the properties and sets them again
thus sent a LINEAR value that no person selected, and the viewport stopped the
use of the curve until a call to resetProperties(). Now the flag is set only if
the new function is different from the function of the image. Also, the new
property useVOILUTSequence lets an application ignore the curve directly, and
getImageDataMetadata() clears the flag for each new image.
// Sequence; an explicit range does not - the curve is stretched over it, so
// window level keeps the shape the file specified
const voiLUT =
props?.voiLUTFunction === undefined ? defaultVOILUT : undefined;

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This path still uses the old rule: if the presentation carries a voiLUTFunction at all, the file's curve is dropped — the same presence-over-intent test the StackViewport fix just replaced. There is no useVOILUTSequence here either, so an application on the generic viewports cannot ask for one behaviour or the other.

Nothing in the library writes voiLUTFunction into a display set presentation today, so it takes an application doing that to hit it. But the two viewport families now disagree about the same file, and the new doc comment on _getVOILUTSequenceToApply describes only the StackViewport rule. Align it here, or track it separately? This might be something to bring up with @wayfarer3130 too.

Comment thread packages/core/src/utilities/windowLevel.ts
daker added 5 commits August 21, 2026 01:28
applyPlanarImagePresentation stopped the VOI LUT Sequence of the file
when the presentation had a voiLUTFunction. StackViewport stops it only
when the function is different from the function of the image. Thus the
two viewport types showed the same file in two ways. Use the test for an
equal or a different function on the generic viewports also.

The generic viewports have no useVOILUTSequence property. Thus an
application there cannot select the other behavior.
…lumes

A volume viewport read neither tag. setDefaultVolumeVOI used the VOI LUT
Function (0028,1056) to calculate the range, but no code gave the function
to the viewport. Thus a SIGMOID series got a linear transfer function with a
sigmoid range. No volume path read the VOI LUT Sequence (0028,3010). Thus a
CR, a DX or an MG file that carries its curve showed the curve on a stack
viewport and a flat window on a volume viewport and on an MPR.

- Resolve one VOI source for a volume: the range, the VOI LUT Function and
  the VOI LUT Sequence of the nearest instance that has one. A sequence
  gives its own input domain as the range and wins over a window of the
  same instance (C.11.2.1), as on the stack viewport
- Take the sequence from the cached image, which the loader normalized, and
  from the VOI LUT module for a volume whose instances are not loaded
- Ignore the window and the curve of a prescaled PT volume. Both are in the
  unscaled counts, and the volume holds SUV
- Make the transfer function that the shape needs in one function, which
  setDefaultVolumeVOI and BaseVolumeViewport.setVOI both use. Thus window
  level stretches the curve of the file and does not replace it
- Keep the shape for each volume on the viewport, and make a new window
  transfer function when the reason for a curve goes away. A range on a
  curve only rescales its nodes, so the shape would stay
- Normalize the VOI LUT Function with getValidVOILUTFunction. The test for
  a member of the enum made LINEAR from a padded value, a lower case value
  or a single element array, which the providers give
- Store the requested function before the transfer function is made. The
  old order used the previous function, so setProperties({ VOILUTFunction })
  had no effect until the next change of the VOI
- Give the volume viewports and the generic viewports the property
  useVOILUTSequence, which only the stack viewport had
- Pass the function and the sequence on the volume paths of the generic
  viewports, on the GPU and on the CPU
- Map VOILUTFunction onto the presentation of a compatibility planar
  viewport, which dropped the property
The GPU path lays the curve of a VOI LUT Sequence (0028,3010) over the
current range. Thus window level reshapes the curve of the file. The CPU
path used the index of the entry directly: it subtracted First Value Mapped
from the value and read that entry. Thus window level did nothing on the
CPU and worked on the GPU, for the same file.

The curve now has one implementation, which the CPU display LUT, the GPU
transfer function and the tools that map a display intensity all use.

- Add createVOILUTSampler, which lays the curve over a range and gives an
  output from 0 to 1. The scale of the entries and the domain are calculated
  one time, because the CPU path maps every stored value of an image
- Add sampleVOILUT and invertVOILUTSample for the callers that map one
  value, and getVOILUTOutputScale for the number of bits of the entries
- Use the sampler in the CPU getVOILut and in the GPU builder
- Take the number of bits from the largest entry, as the comment always
  said, but with a division and not a shift. A shift by a negative count
  shifts by 31 in JavaScript, so a LUT whose largest entry is below 128 gave
  0 for each entry and a black image. A shift also cannot map a fractional
  value, which prescaled float data gives
- Test for a renderable LUT with isRenderableVOILUT, so a LUT of one entry
  and a LUT without First Value Mapped take the window path
…play

createPlanarRGBTransferFunction gives a colormap precedence over the curve
of a VOI LUT Sequence and over a sigmoid: a colormap fills the transfer
function with its own colors, and a curve of grey would remove them.
StackViewport had no such test. Thus setProperties({ colormap }) on an image
that carries a sequence, and then one window level drag or one scroll, made
the image grey again. A sigmoid did the same, which is older.

- Stop the curve of a sequence and the curve of a sigmoid on the stack GPU
  path when a colormap is applied. The range then moves on the transfer
  function of the colormap, which keeps its colors
- Do not make a new transfer function for the transition away from a
  sequence when a colormap is applied. setColormapGPU already put the colors
  of the colormap on the transfer function, and a new one would remove them
- Keep the sequence on the CPU path. There the colormap comes after the VOI
  LUT, so the curve and the colors combine, and _syncCPUVOILUTSequence is
  correct as it is
…i path

getLUT read every entry of LUT Data (0028,3006) as a 16 bit word, and it
calculated the number of entries as the length of the element divided by 2.
LUT Descriptor value 3 gives the width of an entry, and a LUT that declares
8 bits can hold one entry in each byte. Such a LUT thus gave half a table of
nonsense, and normalizeVOILUTSequence could not correct it: the wadouri
provider gives an item that is already in the shape of the renderers, so the
8 bit branch of the normalizer does not run.
@daker daker changed the title feat(voi): support VOI LUT Function LINEAR_EXACT/SIGMOID & VOI LUT Seq feat(voi): VOI LUT Function and VOI LUT Sequence support Aug 21, 2026
buildMetadata held its own getValidVOILUTFunction, which tested for a member
of the VOILUTFunctionType enum. That test gives LINEAR for a padded value, a
lower case value or a single element array of (0028,1056), which the
providers give, and it does not know the key SAMPLED_SIGMOID. The function in
voiLUTFunction.ts normalizes all these shapes, and both are exported from the
utilities of the package under the same name.
wayfarer3130 and others added 3 commits August 24, 2026 07:52
… is rebuilt

Review follow ups on the VOI LUT Sequence support.

StackViewport:

- A colormap was dropped back to grayscale whenever the transfer function was
  rebuilt (a forced recreation, or the first one on a stack) while
  getProperties() went on reporting it. The colormap now takes precedence over
  the file's VOI transformation inside _createVOITransferFunction, matching
  createPlanarRGBTransferFunction, so recreating the function is colormap safe
  rather than only being avoided while one is set.

- A VOI LUT Sequence that could not be turned into a curve was still recorded
  as applied. Since that flag gates both the setVOIGPU early return and
  _resetProperties, window level went permanently inert. It now falls back to
  the analytic window, as the CPU path does, and voiLUTSequenceApplied - both
  the field and the VOI_MODIFIED detail - reflects what reached the actor.

- _getInitialVOIRange checked the sequence before the prescaled PT override,
  the opposite order from getDefaultImageVOIRange, so a prescaled PT carrying
  a sequence got a stored value range and rendered black.

- getProperties() and the VOI_MODIFIED detail could report VOILUTFunction as
  undefined, which both declare non-optional. The field stays optional so the
  per image fallback in setVOICPU still applies; the public surface resolves it.

wadouri metadata provider:

- The VOI dataset was chosen from the window tags alone and then used for the
  VOI LUT Sequence and VOI LUT Function too, dropping whichever attributes
  lived in the other dataset. Each attribute is now resolved independently,
  and a present but zero length window falls through to the Frame VOI LUT
  macro instead of ending the search.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both fail against the previous single-dataset resolution:

- a VOI LUT Sequence at the root was dropped when the window came from the
  Frame VOI LUT macro, because the dataset was chosen from the window tags
  and then used for the sequence too
- a present but zero length Window Center counted as a window and defeated
  the macro fallback, leaving the image with no window at all

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ation

_setPropertiesFromCache re-asserts the viewport's own properties on every
frame navigation, and read VOILUTFunction back through getProperties(). Now
that getProperties() resolves an unset function rather than reporting it
undefined, that guard stopped skipping: after resetProperties() on an image
with no VOI LUT Function (0028,1056), the field was pinned to the current
frame's function and the next frame rendered with the previous frame's.

Visible on the CPU path only - setVOICPU's fallback is where the per image
value was resolved, while on GPU an unset function and LINEAR take the same
branch - but the re-assertion has no business resolving anything, so it reads
the raw field and leaves the fallbacks to the render paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review of the VOI LUT Function / VOI LUT Sequence work

Reviewed at branch head 9ccba0ca — i.e. including the follow-up commits I pushed onto this branch, not just the original two. I re-verified every finding against that head, so the "already addressed" set below is separated out from what is still live.

Test status at 9ccba0ca: packages/core VOI suites 43/43 pass, packages/dicomImageLoader VOI suites 91/91 pass.


What each block of changes does

New shared primitives

  • utilities/voiLUTFunction.ts — one normalizer for (0028,1056), handling string / single-element array / padded / wrong-case / SAMPLED_SIGMOID. Fixes the "SIGMOID"[0] === "S" bug ([Bug] createImage truncates voiLUTFunction to its first character, causing Error: Invalid VOI LUT function on images with (0028,1056) #2844). getValidVOILUTFunction warns once and falls back to LINEAR instead of throwing. The duplicate in buildMetadata.ts is deleted and re-exported.
  • utilities/createVOILUTSequenceTransferFunction.ts — builds a grayscale vtk transfer function from a VOI LUT Sequence, capped at 1024 nodes with a step-preserving refinement pass; plus isRenderableVOILUT, getVOILUTSequenceRange, createVOILUTSampler, invertVOILUTSample. Output scale is taken from the largest entry, matching legacy cornerstone's "don't trust numBitsPerEntry".
  • windowLevel.tsbehavioural: toWindowLevel now takes a function and uses the exact (no ±0.5) formula for LINEAR_EXACT; toLowHighRange no longer throws on an unknown value and treats SIGMOID as LINEAR so the window round-trips exactly. The dead logit branch is removed.
  • createLinearRGBTransferFunction — widens a zero-width range by an epsilon so vtk's setMappingRange cannot divide by a zero node span (the "all-zero first frame of a US cine poisons every later frame" bug).

Where the LUT gets decided

  • One rule, implemented three times: StackViewport._getVOILUTSequenceToApply, BaseVolumeViewport._getVOILUTSequenceToApply, and planarImageRendering.resolveVOILUTSequenceToApply. The sequence wins over the window unless (a) useVOILUTSequence: false, (b) the app asked for a different function than the image's own, or (c) a colormap is set — GPU only, since on the CPU path the colormap composes after the VOI LUT and so is kept.
  • Behavioural: window/level no longer replaces the curve, it re-stretches it over the new range. _getInitialVOIRange / _getVOIRangeForCurrentImage / getDefaultImageVOIRange now return the LUT's own input domain when a sequence applies.
  • New public surface: useVOILUTSequence property, voiLUTSequenceApplied on VOI_MODIFIED and on volume getProperties(). StackViewport.getProperties().VOILUTFunction is now resolved (_getEffectiveVOILUTFunction) rather than raw.
  • setVOILUTFunction no longer throws on CPU. _resetProperties short-circuits the node-replay / colormap-detection when a sequence is on the actor.

Volumes

setDefaultVolumeVOI refactored to getDefaultVolumeVOI returning range + shape; the VOI search now walks outward from the middle slice instead of only probing it; windowCenter === 0 is now accepted; prescaled PT always gets 0–5; volumes get sigmoid and sequence curves for the first time.

Loader

normalizeVOILUTSequence.ts accepts wadouri / dcmjs-naturalized / DICOMweb-JSON-with-InlineBinary shapes; wadors now actually returns voiLUTSequence; wadouri reads the Frame VOI LUT macro (0028,9132) per-attribute (fixes #2745); getLUTs fixes 65535→65536, always reads LUT Data unsigned, and handles 8-bit-packed entries. Behavioural: color images now get no window / VOI / modality LUT and are not prescaled.

CPU render path

The VOI LUT Function is now honoured (LINEAR / LINEAR_EXACT / SIGMOID kernels, w<=1 threshold form), the sequence is stretched over the window rather than index-addressed, and voiLUTFunction is added to the LUT cache key, to lastRenderedViewport, and to the "identity 256/128" fast-path test.


Still live at 9ccba0ca

A. setVOIGPU's early return ignores the LUT's identity — wrong curve on ordinary frame navigation. StackViewport.ts:1748-1757

This is the one that matters most. An ordinary scroll within a stack goes _updateActorToDisplayImageId → the sameImageData && !wasStackInvalidated fast path → _setPropertiesFromCache()_getVOIFromCache()_getVOIRangeForCurrentImage(), which for a sequence returns getVOILUTSequenceRange(voiLUT)setVOI(voiRange) with no forceRecreateLUTFunction and with stackInvalidated === false.

The guard then tests only voiRange.lower/upper, useVOILUTSequence === this.voiLUTSequenceApplied, !forceRecreateLUTFunction and !stackInvalidated. Two frames whose sequences share firstValueMapped and numberOfEntries but differ in LUT Data produce an identical range, so all four conditions hold and the function returns before _createVOITransferFunction is ever reached. Frame N renders with frame N-1's curve, silently. Multi-frame files with a per-frame Frame VOI LUT macro are exactly the shape that hits this.

Suggest folding a LUT identity into the guard — the voiLUT object reference, or a cheap digest of (firstValueMapped, numberOfEntries, lut[0], lut[mid], lut[last]).

B. toPlanarDataPresentation pins the resolved function into the shared presentation. planarLegacyCompatibility.ts:212-221

StackViewport.getProperties().VOILUTFunction is now resolved rather than raw, so the common setProperties(getProperties()) presentation save/restore round-trip writes a concrete function into presentation.voiLUTFunction. resolveVOILUTSequenceToApply (planarImageRendering.ts:257-278) then computes functionIsDifferent === true for any later frame whose own function differs, drops that frame's sequence, and renders it with the previous frame's function.

Worth noting that _setPropertiesFromCache (StackViewport.ts:1058-1064) already documents and avoids precisely this hazard by re-asserting the raw field; the presentation path has no equivalent guard.

C. The generic planar CPU image path ignores voiLUTFunction and useVOILUTSequence. CpuImageSliceRenderPath.ts:418-433

It reads enabledElement.image?.voiLUTFunction and never assigns viewport.voiLUT. The sibling volume path (PlanarCPUVolumeSampler.ts:413-422) does both, routing through resolveVOILUTSequenceToApply. So on a CPU generic planar image viewport, setProperties({ VOILUTFunction: 'SIGMOID' }) and useVOILUTSequence: false are silent no-ops, while the GPU path honours both. Using the image's own function for the range round-trip is defensible, but the app's request should still reach the renderer.

D. CPU volume window uses the exact algebra but is tagged with the real function. PlanarCPUVolumeSampler.ts:410-417, and the synthetic slice at 1205-1224

windowCenter = (lower + upper) / 2, windowWidth = upper - lower is the LINEAR_EXACT relation, but voiLUTFunction is then set to the presentation's or the volume's actual function. The CPU renderer un-converts with that function's own formula, and for LINEAR that is the ±0.5 form, so the window comes back shifted by about one level. The stack path was fixed in this PR to route through toWindowLevel(lower, upper, voiLUTFunction); these two sites weren't.

E. Volume resetToDefaultProperties clears the shape flags but may not repaint the actor. BaseVolumeViewport.ts:1369-1387

voiLUTFunctionSetByUser, useVOILUTSequence and viewportProperties.VOILUTFunction are reset unconditionally, but setVOI / setVOILUTFunction only run when globalDefaultProperties actually carries those keys. With no stored defaults, a sigmoid or sequence transfer function stays on the actor while the reported properties say otherwise.

F. setStack does not reset the VOI-decision state. StackViewport.ts:2189-2203

voiRange, invert, the flips and interpolationType are all reset, but useVOILUTSequence and voiLUTSequenceApplied are not. So an app-level useVOILUTSequence: false leaks onto the next display set, and a stale voiLUTSequenceApplied === true feeds straight into the guard in (A) on the first frame of the new stack. (voiLUTFunctionSetByUser does get cleared, indirectly, via getImageDataMetadata.)

G. Perf: getVolumeVOIShape is O(number of instances) and uncached. setDefaultVolumeVOI.ts:369-391

getVOISourceFromImageIds walks outward from the middle over every imageId with a metaData.get(VOI_LUT, …) per step, and only returns after the whole list when no instance carries a window. Its own doc comment notes it is called on every window-level change, and PlanarCPUVolumeSampler.createSliceImage (line 1211) calls it on every resample. For a 500-slice volume with no VOI metadata that is ~500 provider lookups per window-level move and per resample. The outward search is a real improvement in correctness — it just wants a per-volume memo.

H. Minor: an unbuildable sequence still forces a rebuild on every move.

The fallback at StackViewport.ts:1813-1821 correctly stops recording an unbuildable LUT as applied, which fixed the "window level permanently inert" half of this. What remains is that useVOILUTSequence stays true while voiLUTSequenceApplied is false, so useVOILUTSequence === this.voiLUTSequenceApplied never holds and the transfer function is rebuilt on every window-level move. Narrow — it needs isRenderableVOILUT to pass while _createVOITransferFunction returns nothing.


Already addressed on this branch

For anyone reading against the earlier state of the diff, these were found and are already fixed in the follow-up commits:

  • _syncCPUVOILUTSequence is now called from resetProperties (:935) and setVOILUTFunction (:1453), so the CPU stack path no longer applies frame 1's curve to every later frame.
  • StackViewport.resetProperties now restores useVOILUTSequence / VOILUTFunction and clears voiLUTFunctionSetByUser (:918-930).
  • An unbuildable sequence is no longer recorded as applied (:1813-1821), so window level is no longer permanently inert on such a viewport.
  • A colormap now keeps its own transfer function on the GPU path while the CPU path composes the two (:1740-1746).

One design question worth settling before merge

getImageDataMetadata clears voiLUTFunctionSetByUser and overwrites this.VOILUTFunction from each image (StackViewport.ts:1934-1938). The comment there argues this is correct, and it is what makes per-frame sequence resolution work. The consequence is that setProperties({ VOILUTFunction: 'SIGMOID' }) on a stack does not survive frame navigation — there is no voiUpdatedWithSetProperties equivalent for the function.

That is a defensible reading (the function is per-instance metadata), but it is an asymmetry in the public API: voiRange is sticky across frames, VOILUTFunction is not. Either choice is fine; it should be documented explicitly, since apps that set a function once and expect it to hold will see it revert on scroll.


Behavioural changes worth a release note

These are intentional rather than bugs, but they will move pixels for existing users:

  • Prescaled PT volumes now always get 0–5 even when the metadata carries a usable window (previously only on the min/max fallback branch), and shouldUseImageIdsForVOI no longer gates it.
  • Volume VOI now accepts windowCenter === 0 (previously rejected by a truthiness test) and searches neighbouring slices, so series that used to fall back to middle-slice min/max will now render with a metadata window.
  • Color images lose their window / VOI / modality LUT and are no longer prescaled, so _getInitialVOIRange returns undefined and setVOIGPU falls back to the scalar data range.
  • getLUTs reading LUT Data as unsigned and honouring 8-bit packing changes the rendered curve for any file previously mis-parsed — intended, but it will move pixels.
  • toLowHighRange no longer throws 'Invalid VOI LUT function'; anything unrecognised degrades to LINEAR.

Verdict

The centralisation is real and the rule is coherent — one predicate, three call sites, and the doc comments carry the DICOM reasoning. The remaining risk is concentrated in staleness rather than in the rule itself.

(A) is the blocker: it produces a visibly wrong curve on ordinary single-frame navigation, with no error. (B) matters for any app that round-trips presentations. (F) is a cheap fix that also removes one input to (A). (C), (D) and (E) are contained to the generic-viewport CPU paths and to volume reset, and (G)/(H) are performance rather than correctness.

Happy to push fixes for (A) and (F) onto this branch as well if that would help.

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