Pydicom - Medical Imaging Standards

DICOM is more than an image; it's a rich data structure containing patient info, spatial orientation, and pixel data. Pydicom provides access to all these tags.

When to Use

• Processing medical imaging data (CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound).
• Extracting patient metadata and clinical information from DICOM files.
• Building AI models for radiology that require both image and metadata.
• Converting DICOM to other formats for analysis.
• Quality assurance and compliance checking in medical imaging workflows.

Core Principles

Datasets as Dicts

Access tags by name (e.g., ds.PatientName) or ID (ds[0x0010, 0x0010]).

Pixel Data