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.. _DICOM:
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
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Extensions: ``.dcm``, ``.ct``, ``.mri``
A format for reading DICOM images: a common format used to store
medical image data, such as X-ray, CT and MRI.
This format borrows some code (and ideas) from the pydicom project,
and (to the best of our knowledge) has the same limitations as
pydicom with regard to the type of files that it can handle. However,
only a predefined subset of tags are extracted from the file. This allows
for great simplifications allowing us to make a stand-alone reader, and
also results in a much faster read time. We plan to allow reading all
tags in the future (by using pydicom).
This format provides functionality to group images of the same
series together, thus extracting volumes (and multiple volumes).
Using volread will attempt to yield a volume. If multiple volumes
are present, the first one is given. Using mimread will simply yield
all images in the given directory (not taking series into account).
Parameters for reading
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progress : {True, False, BaseProgressIndicator}
Whether to show progress when reading from multiple files.
Default True. By passing an object that inherits from
BaseProgressIndicator, the way in which progress is reported
can be costumized.
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