DICOM extension for DuckDB

The dicom extension for DuckDB provides functionality to import and query medical imaging data (DICOM, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) directly into DuckDB. It uses the powerful DCMTK C++ library to import DICOM files and datasets and parse them into DuckDB-friendly JSON format.

NOTE: This extension is not supported in WebAssembly.

Features

• Import medical image data directly into DuckDB: The read_dicom function imports DICOM files in JSON format directly into DuckDB.

• Work with DICOM tags: The DICOM_TAG type and several scalar functions parse DICOM tags and transform them for presentation-ready reports.

• DICOM networking: Store credentials to connect to remote modalities with the custom dicom secret type. Extract targeted information or entire datasets from remote modalities with query_dicom and retrieve_dicom.

For more information and examples, see the API reference.

Quick start

INSTALL dicom FROM community;
LOAD dicom;

-- read one file
FROM read_dicom('path/to/dicom_file.dcm');

Get in touch

Feel free to share feedback, issues and feature requests in GitHub.