ReaDicom

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  A Processed image of a CT Scan

Inspiration

It once came to my mind, while I was examining the CT scan reports of one of my relatives, how are these reports prepared, and how are they dealt with, at the software level. It was with this curiosity, that I thought to begin to work on making software that could not only demonstrate the same but also add some new features to it.

What it does

In simple words, ReaDicom is a software, based on JAVA, that reads files of "Dicom" format, processes and compares the images, and also read all the metadata (for eg. the name of the patient and all such other information) present in it.

How we built it

We have taken the help of PixelMed Library to achieve the goal of reading the files.

We have used naive Java Code to design the UI.

What we learned

As this was the first project that I had made in JAVA, while turning this project from an idea to reality, I had to brush up on almost all the basics of File reading in JAVA, researching which libraries are present over the internet that support DICOM manipulation, and also, how to implement a simple yet crisp UI for the application to function smoothly.

What's next for ReaDicom

The things that are currently on our minds, that we cannot wait to implement in our project includes :

• Improved UI for the user and a hosted application for remote access to the users.

And also, Implement the following features :

1) PET-CT Fusion 2) 3D Image rendering to visualize large volumes of data generated by modern CT/MR scanners in three-dimensional space

Built With

• java
• pixelmed
• swing