dcmrtstruct2nii 5

Convert DICOM RT-Struct to nii

dcmrtstruct2nii

DICOM RT-Struct to nii-mask. This is a naïve approach to rasterizing rt-struct to masks in nii format. If there's holes in your RT-Struct then this approach will most likely not work. The RT-Struct needs to be within the bounds of the slices of the original DICOM. Rasterization is done on a slice-by-slice basis, interpolation between slices is currently unsupported.

Interpolation

Interpolation of the mask between slices is currently unsupported. Send us an algorithm or a pull requests and we'll happly add it.

Input file format

The DICOM and RT-Struct inputs need to be unzipped in a directory. Currently this is the only way to read the input files.

CLI Tool

# install using pip and show tool help
pip install dcmrtstruct2nii
dcmrtstruct2nii --help

# list structures in DICOM RT Struct
dcmrtstruct2nii ls -r /path/to/rtstruct/file

# convert help output
dcmrtstruct2nii convert --help

# convert DICOM RT Structs to .nii.gz masks
dcmrtstruct2nii convert -r /path/to/rtstruct/file.dcm -d /path/to/original/extracted/dicom -o /output/path

Python API

# install using pip and show tool help
pip install dcmrtstruct2nii

# lets test it
from dcmrtstruct2nii import dcmrtstruct2nii, list_rt_structs

print(list_rt_structs('/path/to/dicom/rtstruct/file.dcm'))

dcmrtstruct2nii('/path/to/dicom/rtstruct/file.dcm', '/path/to/original/extracted/dicom/files', '/output/path')

License and academic use

The software is licensed MIT License.

For academic use, use a presistent copy from .

Please cite:

Thomas Phil, Thomas Albrecht, Skylar Gay, & Mathis Ersted Rasmussen. (2023). Sikerdebaard/dcmrtstruct2nii: dcmrtstruct2nii v5 (Version v5). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4037864