: image = dicomread (filename)
: image = dicomread (structure)

Load the image from a DICOM file.

Inputs

filename - a string giving the filename.*

structure - a structure with a field Filename (such as returned by dicominfo).

image - may be two or three dimensional, depending on the content of the file.

Outputs

image - An integer or float matrix will be returned, the number of bits will depend on the file.

Examples

Load the image data of a dcm file:

> image = dicomread(file_in_loadpath('imdata/simple-test.dcm'))
image =
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0
 0  0  0  0  0

See also: dicominfo.

Package: dicom