How-to recipes

Task-focused guides for the capabilities that go beyond reading and decoding — each is a short, runnable recipe.

Imaging & ML

• DICOM → NIfTI, BIDS & DWI — volumes, sidecars, diffusion tables
• Preprocessing — resample, normalize, sliding-window
• Radiomics features — IBSI features over an ROI
• Whole-slide imaging — read regions from a DICOM WSI pyramid

Authoring derived objects

• Segmentations (SEG) — write & read binary / fractional SEG
• Parametric maps — author a float map, read it back
• Structured reports (TID 1500) — measurement reports
• RT dose & DVH — read dose, compute DVH, author RT Dose

Integration

• DIMSE networking — echo / store / query / retrieve, SCU and SCP
• DICOMweb — QIDO / WADO / STOW against a remote server
• Waveforms (ECG / EEG) — read, write, hand off to analysis
• FHIR & HL7 bridges — ImagingStudy and ORU^R01
• Agent / MCP server — expose pydcm's live-object tools over MCP