Learning resources

Tutorials

Our tutorials are meant to teach anyone unfamiliar with both pydicom and the DICOM Standard how to achieve specific goals.

• Dataset basics: read, access, modify, write
• A beginner’s guide to Pixel Data
• A beginner’s guide to Waveform Data
• DICOM File-sets and DICOMDIR
• A (brief) introduction to Structured Reports
• Introduction to JSON support
• Contributing a source code change
• Contributing a documentation change

Guides

User guide

The user guide provides an overview of using the core classes, functions and other objects in pydicom.

• User Guide

Technical guides

The following guides are intended to convey more technical material in a concise manner.

• Plugins for Pixel Data compression and decompression
• Pixel Data decoding options and plugins
• Pixel Data encoding guides, options and plugins
• Command-line Interface guide

Code examples

Our collection of code examples can be found here.