dicom-decompress 0.0.2

Minimal command-line tool for decompressing DICOM files with compressed pixel data.

dicom-decompress

A command-line utility for decompressing DICOM files with compressed pixel data

Installation

pip install dicom-decompress

This will install the terminal command dicom-decompress in your environment.

To decompress a single file run

dicom-decompress in.dcm out.dcm

where in.dcm is the file to decompress and out.dcm is the decompressed target file.

To decompress multiple files in-place run e.g.

find . -name "*.dcm" -exec dicom-decompress {} {} \;

Dependencies

• numpy
• pydicom
• pylibjpeg
• pylibjpeg-libjpeg
• pylibjpeg-openjpeg

Development

• To build: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel (requires python3 + wheel package)
• To install: pip install --force-reinstall dist/dicom-decompress-x.y.z-py3-none-any.whl, (x.y.z is version, see setup.py)
• To publish
  • Install twine: pip install twine
  • Build package (cf. above)
  • Make sure it passes the twine check: twine check dist/*
  • Publish: twine upload dist/*