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Atnaize
Atnaize

Reputation: 1816

Dcmtk dump, reduce time by not loading everything

I'm working with DICOM images and use DCMTK to make some process.

My problem here is that I have to retrieve only certain tags of batch of images. But the process take too long.

I'm using dcmdump -M -L +P '0010,0020' +P '0010,0010

But the "dumping" of a single file take ~1sc. It's because all tags are still loaded but then the +P is searching through all tags.

I only have a few tags to retrieve. Is there any possibilities to only load certain specific tags to reduce the time necessary to dump a file?

Maybe DCMTK is not the right tool to use. I'm open to everything.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1576

Answers (1)

ColonelFazackerley
ColonelFazackerley

Reputation: 892

The gdcm package has a command line tool to do exactly what you want

http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/gdcmscanner.html

In order to display all the values for Patient Name (0010,0010) for files in the current directory.

gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d . -p

It only loads the bits you ask for. It is fast.

Upvotes: 5

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