# Introduction

## DICOM4MICCAI: 21st Century DICOM for Quantitative Imaging Research: Why, What and How

**Materials for the MICCAI 2018 tutorial taking place on Sept 16, 2018**

**More info at** [**http://qiicr.org/dicom4miccai**](http://qiicr.org/dicom4miccai)

These materials were prepared to accompany the hands-on component of the [DICOM4MICCAI tutorial at the MICCAI 2018 conference](http://qiicr.org/dicom4miccai/).

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce you to the basic concepts related to the use of the DICOM standard for storing quantitative image analysis results, and the tools that you may find helpful to work with the resulting datasets.

The tutorial is organized into the following sections:

1. [Prerequisites](/dicom4miccai-handson/prerequisites.md)
2. [Using DICOM for storing analysis results](/dicom4miccai-handson/using-dicom-to-store-your-analysis-results/dicom-slicer.md)
3. [DICOM Structured Reporting for  radiomics](/dicom4miccai-handson/using-dicom-to-store-your-analysis-results/dicom-structured-reporting-for-radiomics.md)
4. [Exploration of the analysis results stored in DICOM](/dicom4miccai-handson/dicom-explore.md)

## Feedback

Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections are welcomed!

Please email `andrey.fedorov@gmail.com`, or [join the discussion on gitter](https://gitter.im/QIICR/dcmqi)!


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