dicomTable: Construct Data Frame from DICOM Headers
Description
A data frame is created given the valid DICOM fields provided by the
user.Usage
dicomTable(hdrs, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, collapse = "-", colSort = TRUE,
verbose = FALSE, debug = FALSE)Arguments
hdrs
List object of DICOM headers.
stringsAsFactors
Logical variable to be passed to
data.frame.
collapse
Character string used to paste DICOM group,
element and value fields.
colSort
Logical variable (default = TRUE) to sort column
names in the table.
verbose
Flag to provide text-based progress bar (default =
FALSE).
debug
Logical variable (default = FALSE) that regulates
to display of intermediate processing steps.
Value
- Data frame where the rows correspond to images and the columns
correspond to the UNION of all DICOM fields across all files in the
list.
References
Whitcher, B., V. J. Schmid and A. Thornton (2011). Working with the
DICOM and NIfTI Data Standards in R, Journal of Statistical
Software, 44 (6), 1--28.
http://www.jstatsoft.org/v44/i06 Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
http://medical.nema.org