Working with DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information. It is prevalent in radiology and is gaining traction also in pathology.
Some datasets on the AIDA Data Hub are provided in DICOM format. In DICOM, data is provided in nested and interlinking structures, which can be nontrivial for newcomers to the field to navigate.
For an introduction to how one can work with DICOM data, AIDA is providing a Jupyter notebook, which is publicly available through the SciLifeLab/NBIS GitHub organization: