[Feature Request]: Support DICOM image

[dnth]

Feature Name

Native DICOM image support

Feature Description

Images in medical datasets are usually stored in .dcm format which includes other metadata.

To get pixel values from .dcm image, first install the libraries:

pip install pydicom pylibjpeg

Here's a code snippet to get the pixel values from a .dcm image.

import pydicom
dicom_file_path = "1000.dcm"
dicom_image = pydicom.dcmread(dicom_file_path)
pixel_data = dicom_image.pixel_array

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.imshow(pixel_data, cmap=plt.cm.gray)
plt.show()

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