The DICOM package provides Digital communications in medicine (DICOM) file io by using the Grassroots DICOM (GDCM) libraries for GNU Octave.
- libgdcm 2.0.16 or greater
To install, run the octave package manager:
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If running Windows, the package may already be installed: type pkg list, to view the installed packages.
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To install from source forge: pkg install -forge dicom
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To install from a local tarball. pkg install dicom-XXXXXXX.tar.gz Where XXXXXXX is the version of the the downloaded tarball.
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Load the package. pkg load dicom (Required each time Octave is started)
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Use the function calls dicominfo, dicomread and dicomwrite to read and write DICOM files.
See the function list for dicom on octave forge for function documentation.
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