Image Processing Toolbox User's Guide

Working with DICOM Files

The Image Processing Toolbox includes support for working with image data in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format. Topics covered include:

• Reading Image Data from a DICOM File
• Reading Metadata from a DICOM File
• Writing Image Data or Metadata to a DICOM File, including information about anonymizing a DICOM file

To see an example that reads both the image data and metadata from a DICOM file, modifies the image data, and writes the modified data to a new DICOM file, see Example: Creating a New Series. The example shows how to use the dicomuid function to generate a DICOM unique identifier, which you need to create a new series.

Converting Graphics File Formats

Reading Image Data from a DICOM File

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