DicomBrowser

This is a lightweight portable Dicom browser application written in Python. It allows Dicom directories to be loaded, images and tag data viewed, and not much else aside. This is intended to be a cross-platform utility suitable for previewing Dicom data rather than doing any sort of processing.

Installation

DicomBrowser requires Python 3.7+, PyQt5, numpy, pydicom and pyqtgraph, and optionally the libraries for pydicom used to load JPEG data.

Installation through pip:

pip install dicombrowser

Installation from repo:

git clone https://github.com/ericspod/DicomBrowser.git
cd DicomBrowser
pip install .

This will create the entry point dicombrowser which accepts DICOM directories or zip files containing them:

dicombrowser MAGIX.zip

DicomBrowser can be run directly as a module from the repo:

python -m dicombrowser

Docker

A Dockerfile is included, to build the image with the following command:

docker build . -t dicombrowser:latest

and then to run the created image "dicombrowser" on a X Windows host use a command like the following:

docker run -ti --rm --net=host -e DISPLAY -v "$HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw" dicombrowser

Running xhost +local:docker may be necessary to add permissions and allow the container to access the X network ports.

Authors

DicomBrowser is developed and maintained by Eric Kerfoot eric.kerfoot@kcl.ac.uk.

License

Copyright (C) 2016-22 Eric Kerfoot, King's College London, all rights reserved

This file is part of DicomBrowser.

DicomBrowser is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

DicomBrowser is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (LICENSE.txt). If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/