MediMan

I unfortunately had to have a look on some DICOM files containing data of a close relative during the last days. The (old) version of the RISC OS port of ImageMagick delivered unsatisfying results with most of the files. So I had a short look on the some thousands PDF pages of the DICOM specification. As I found quickly the required information I decided to write my own DICOM parser application. I called the application MediMan.

MediMan is a very simple parser and extractor for DICOM files. As mentioned above the DICOM specification is complex so you can’t expect too much. It is likely that MediMan will fail to parse and extract a couple of DICOM files. However for me and another Betatester it worked in last consequence.

Short explanation: DICOM files are used in medicine at least here in Germany to exchange data from CT-, X-ray and ultrasonic data.

DICOM files are definitely not a “must have”. Their existence means that something is wrong with someones health …

MediMan parses the contained information as much as possible, displays it in a taskwindow and tries to extract enclosed data like pictures as sprites.

MediMan is Freeware and can be downloaded from my homepage

http://thomas-milius-stade.dnshome.de/indexE.htm

Section Computer activities

or directly from

http://thomas-milius-stade.dnshome.de/Download/Freeware/MediMan.zip

or from PlingStore.

Short explanation: DICOM files are used in medicine at least here in Germany to exchange data from CT-, X-ray and ultrasonic data.

UK too, also USA I believe.
I don’t, personally, have much to do with the Medical Imaging stuff day to day, that’s the remit of a few people up the corridor.
I make sure the links/firewalls allow the data from A to B, the people up the corridor make sure everything in the storage is fine, and the clinicians across the car park use the images for diagnostic purposes.

Might be interesting to compare “test chicken” on PC and Pi. If I do find the time, I will let you know.

Two in one… I have play around with MediMan and MakeMJPEG. Working well and together.
Have made two example videos with MakeMJPEG (and convert with ffmpeg) from the images I convert with MediMan.

Video1 and Video2

Cool. Very.,