Construct Data Frame from DICOM Headers

A data frame is created given the valid DICOM fields provided by the user.

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

Author

Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com