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
- Diffusion tensor (DTI) — FA / MD / DEC maps and deterministic tractography from a DWI series
- 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, point dose, compute DVH, author RT Dose
- Spatial registration (66.1) — read / author the transform between two Frames of Reference
- Surface meshes & tractography — read / write Surface Segmentation and Tractography Results
- Tumour response (RECIST) — measure lesions off a SEG and score RECIST / iRECIST / mRECIST / RANO / PCWG3
- Perfusion (DCE-MRI) — pharmacokinetic Ktrans / ve / vp maps from a dynamic series
- Perfusion (DSC-MRI) — CBF / CBV / MTT / Tmax with leakage correction from a dynamic series
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
- Ophthalmic visual field — static perimetry → pandas / JSON, conformance
- FHIR & HL7 bridges — ImagingStudy and ORU^R01
- Agent / MCP server — expose pydcm's live-object tools over MCP