Introduction

The DICOM package provides Digital communications in medicine (DICOM)
file io by using the Grassroots DICOM (GDCM) libraries for GNU Octave.

Requirements

• libgdcm 2.0.16 or greater

Installing

To install, run the octave package manager:

1. If running Windows, the package may already be installed:
   type pkg list, to view the installed packages.

2. To install from source forge:
   pkg install -forge dicom

3. To install from a local tarball.
   pkg install dicom-XXXXXXX.tar.gz
   Where XXXXXXX is the version of the the downloaded tarball.

Usage:

1. Load the package.
   pkg load dicom
   (Required each time Octave is started)

2. Use the function calls dicominfo, dicomread and dicomwrite to read and write DICOM files.

Documentation

See the function list for dicom on octave forge for function documentation.

Known limitations and bugs

None provided