ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses working with Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images in MATLAB, with primary focus on: importing, writing and displaying DICOM data, ways to anonymize data in MATLAB, extracting meta data and techniques on rendering images and volumes. A volume data set can either be a multidimensional vector volume data or scalar volume data. A vector volume data contains two or more values per voxel, defining the components of the vector. A scalar volume data set contains a single value per voxel. A typical DICOM volume data set is a scalar volume, which can be visualized in MATLAB using various plotting functions, such as: volshow, isosurface, slice and contourslice. The volume data can be imported either from file, from a DICOM folder containing DICOM images, or also from workspace.
