Welcome to pydicom-seg’s documentation!¶
Converting DICOM-SEG files into ITK compatible data formats, commonly used for research, is made possible by the dcmqi project for some time. However, the project is written in C++ and offers only access to the conversion via the binaries itkimage2segimage and segimage2itkimage. After a conversion of a DICOM-SEG file to ITK NRRD file format, the user has to scan the output directory for generated files, load them individually and potentially combine multiple files to the desired format.
This library aims to make this process much easier, by providing a Python native implementation of reading and writing functionality with support for numpy and SimpleITK. Additionally, common use cases like loading multi-class segmentations are supported out-of-the-box.