Re: Package Proposal: DICOM_File

On Fri, 9 May 2003 18:56:51 -0400 Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com> wrote: > > I want to propose a package for reading and modifying DICOM files. > DICOM > files are used for imaging in medicine (they can contain > audio/image/video), but this package mostly deals with the metadata > fields in such a file. DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and > COmmunications in Medicine, but as the package name suggests it will > not deal with any communications/network related stuff. You can find > more information on DICOM at: http://medical.nema.org/ > > proposed category: medicine (a bit too specific, but I learned my > lesson :) proposed status: alpha > package, source code, sample script and API docs at: > http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~xnoguer/DICOM/ > > > Future plans: > - more testing > - change getValue() so that it accepts a more human-understandable > argument- test some more > - add documentation (Have to figure a non-stupid way of documenting > the ~1700 > file fields). > - more testing.