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Day: May 13, 2012

  • Converting DICOM X-ray Images to Something Useful

    For reasons that aren’t relevant here, we have a CD bearing X-rays of Mary’s shoulder. Of course, they’re in DICOM image format and come with a relentlessly Window-centric viewer that won’t run in Wine and can’t export the files in a more useful format.

    Imagemagick to the rescue:

    
    convert /media/floppy/DICOM/997313/00100000 "Mary Shoulder 2.jpg"
    
    
    Mary Shoulder 2 - detail
    Mary Shoulder 2 – detail

    They tell us she has great bones and everything worked out fine…