diff --git a/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt b/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
index 8ab610c5d9..cda9aaf3e8 100644
--- a/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,52 @@
 
 MITK_CREATE_MODULE_TESTS(LABELS MITK-Core)
 
+include(mitkFunctionAddTestLabel)
+
 # verify minimum expectations:
 #   files are recognized as DICOM
 #   loading files results in a given number of images
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_NoFiles mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 0)
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_CTImage mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 1 ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/spacing-ok-ct.dcm)
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_MRImage mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 1 ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/spacing-ok-mr.dcm)
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_SCImage mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 1 ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/spacing-ok-sc.dcm)
 
+set(VERIFY_DUMP_CMD VerifyDICOMMitkImageDump)
+
+set(CT_ABDOMEN_DIR ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/TinyCTAbdomen)
+
+# these variables could be passed as parameters to a generic test creation function
+set(CURRENT_DATASET_DIR ${CT_ABDOMEN_DIR})
+set(TESTS_DIR Tests)
+set(INPUT_LISTNAME input)
+set(EXPECTED_DUMP expected.dump)
+
+file(GLOB_RECURSE allInputs ${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${TESTS_DIR}/*/${INPUT_LISTNAME})
+
+foreach(input ${allInputs})
+  string(REGEX REPLACE ".*${TESTS_DIR}/([^/]+)/.*" "\\1" input ${input})
+  set(inputfilelist "${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${TESTS_DIR}/${input}/${INPUT_LISTNAME}")
+  set(expecteddump "${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${TESTS_DIR}/${input}/${EXPECTED_DUMP}")
+  set(testname "DICOM_Load_${input}")
+
+  message(STATUS "Test case '${input}' : CTest test ${testname}")
+  message(STATUS "  Input files in ${inputfilelist}")
+  message(STATUS "  Expected mitk::Image dump in ${expecteddump}")
+
+  # TODO provide error messages if input not valid
+
+  file(STRINGS ${inputfilelist} rawDicomFiles)
+  foreach(raw ${rawDicomFiles})
+    set(fileWithFullPath ${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${raw})
+    list(APPEND dicomFiles ${fileWithFullPath})
+  endforeach(raw ${rawDicomFiles})
+
+  message(STATUS "  Load ${dicomFiles}")
+
+  add_test(NAME ${testname}
+           COMMAND ${VERIFY_DUMP_CMD} ${expecteddump} ${dicomFiles})
+  mitkFunctionAddTestLabel(${testname}) #not yet in branch
+
+endforeach(input allInputs)
+
+