DICOM4MICCAI Hands-on
  • Introduction
  • Prerequisites
    • If you are attending the tutorial in-person
    • If you are following on your own
  • Using DICOM to store your analysis results
    • Using 3D Slicer to convert non-DICOM segmentation results
    • DICOM Structured Reporting for radiomics
    • Using 3D Slicer for storing analysis results in DICOM
      • Step 0: 3D Slicer interface basics
      • Step 1: Import DICOM data
      • Step 2: Load DICOM image
      • Step 3: Segment lesions
      • Step 3.1:QuantitativeReporting interface overview
      • Step 3.2: Create and initialize a new segment
      • Step 3.3: Segment the lesions
      • Step 4: Explore and store the analysis results in DICOM
      • Step 5: Reload the analysis results from DICOM
      • Exporting DICOM data from 3D Slicer
    • Using MITK Workbench for storing segmentation results in DICOM
      • Step 0: MITK interface basics
      • Step 1: Import DICOM data
      • Step 2: Load DICOM image
      • Step 3: Segment lesions
      • Step 4: Explore and store the segmentations in DICOM
      • Step 5: Reload the segmentations from DICOM
  • DICOM data wrangling
  • Further reading
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  1. Using DICOM to store your analysis results
  2. Using 3D Slicer for storing analysis results in DICOM

Step 2: Load DICOM image

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Now that the DICOM images are indexed in the Slicer DICOM database we can open the individual image series. In the DICOM Browser window, select the item QIN-HEADNECK-01-0024 in the patient list, and the only image series with modality PT (Positron Emission Tomography, or PET).

Once the image is loaded, you should automatically see it in the 2D slice viewers (orange arrows below). This is a PET image that was obtained after injecting the , which is a marker of tissue uptake of glucose, in turn closely correlated with certain types of tissue metabolism. The image you see has been normalized by the patient weight to show at each pixel, with the lower values (darker pixels) corresponding to larger SUV values. You can see right away the regions that show increased SUV are brain, heart and bladder (green arrows below).

fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) radioactive tracer
Standardized Uptake Value (SUV)