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I'm on a project in which some processing work of some MR images are needed. Is there any advantage of not using dicom image?? I mean why should i convert this dicom image???
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Neeta Dsouza
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Answered Aug 13, 2026
DICOM images contain useful meta-data such as pixel sizes and slice spacing.
On the other hand, accessing DICOM image files can be painfully slow, and the code is not nearly as readable as a simple imread().
This suggests a potential compromise: if you are going to be reading the same image numerous times, then convert the image once and store it. You may wish to do that storage as part of a structure into which you have written the DICOM parameters that are of interest to you.
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