[Feature] <Allow reading of DICOM images>

[etpeterson]

Feature description

Read medical images as DICOM and not just NIFTI.

Describe the solution

Right now it uses NIFTI, but DICOM is a more common standard. So just having another layer that reads DICOMs and converts to NIFTI for reading. Or just reading the DICOMs directly using some python package. Saving DICOM images is also difficult so that could be another issue.

Describe alternatives

No response

Additional context

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Are you working on this?

None

[Unique-Usman]

Good, how can I get the sample for the DICOM ?

[etpeterson]

Good, how can I get the sample for the DICOM ?

That's actually harder than I thought. Some googling isn't finding IVIM dicom data. There's definitely DICOMs available, but I'm not finding actual dicom source data of IVIM. Perhaps @oliverchampion knows where some is?

I did find dicom data in general. If you can read this, you can probably read 95% of the IVIM dicom data. https://zenodo.org/records/16956

[jph6366]

can you assign me this

Perhaps there is some IVIM dicom data available in here?
https://data.kitware.com/ or here (I think this uses gamma variate fitting)

I am still learning the perfusion imaging side of things (as a GSoC '25 applicant)

[etpeterson]

can you assign me this

Perhaps there is some IVIM dicom data available in here? https://data.kitware.com/ or here (I think this uses gamma variate fitting)

I am still learning the perfusion imaging side of things (as a GSoC '25 applicant)

Sure. There might be some data there, I doubt it's IVIM though. Some of these might contain DICOMs: https://zenodo.org/search?q=ivim%20mri&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=bestmatch

[lambaaryan011]

Hi @jph6366 are you working on this, or I take over this issue .

[jph6366]

Hi @jph6366 are you working on this, or I take over this issue .

Yes I am finishing up my PR