Using the DICOM toolkit dcm4che from Matlab

Example showing how to load and use the dcm4che dicom toolkit

Description

Matlab's image processing toolkit provides functions for reading and writing DICOM medical image files, but it does not provide a full DICOM toolkit for networking, structured reports, etc. This example shows how to call the robust and open-source dcm4che toolkit (www.dcm4che.org) to access greater DICOM functionality directly from matlab. You can use this to replace or enhance Matlab's DICOM interface and add DICOM networking.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)
• Other requirements: java, dcm4che java library

[Flavia Costa]

 

[Jackson Shen]

It is really good. Could you give some more info. about how to get the information in the Tag? For instance, it will be very usefull to know how can I get "Pixel Spacing", "Image Position (Patient)", "Slice Thickness" etc ...

[Patrick Bolan]

Note about versioning: This only seems to work with Matlab 7 or later. And, if you're using a different version of dcm4che you'll need to update all the library filenames appropriately.

[Cecil Yen]