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pydicom
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By mkurman/zorai (GitHub) · data · 327 stars · scanned at commit 8ea1fc3
Python library for working with DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) files. Use this skill when reading, writing, or modifying medical imaging data in DICOM format, extracting pixel data from medical images (CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound), anonymizing DICOM files, working with DICOM metadata and tags, converting DICOM images to other formats, handling compressed DICOM data, or processing medical imaging datasets. Applies to tasks involving medical image analysis, PACS systems, ra…
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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- skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/SKILL.md, line 37
uv pip install matplotlib # For visualization - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/SKILL.md, line 43
uv pip install pylibjpeg pylibjpeg-libjpeg pylibjpeg-openjpeg # JPEG compression - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/SKILL.md, line 44
uv pip install python-gdcm # Alternative compression handler - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/SKILL.md, line 404
- Solution: Install additional compression handlers: `uv pip install pylibjpeg pylibjpeg-libjpeg python-gdcm` - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 279
pip install pylibjpeg pylibjpeg-libjpeg - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 281
pip install pillow - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 286
pip install pylibjpeg pylibjpeg-libjpeg - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 288
pip install python-gdcm - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 293
pip install pylibjpeg pylibjpeg-openjpeg - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 295
pip install python-gdcm - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 297
pip install pillow - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/references/transfer_syntaxes.md, line 306
pip install pylibjpeg pylibjpeg-libjpeg pylibjpeg-openjpeg python-gdcm - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/scripts/anonymize_dicom.py, line 17
print("Error: pydicom is not installed. Install it with: pip install pydicom") - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/scripts/dicom_to_image.py, line 21
print("Install with: pip install pydicom pillow numpy") - skills/scientific-skills/pydicom/scripts/extract_metadata.py, line 19
print("Error: pydicom is not installed. Install it with: pip install pydicom")
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'pydicom' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'pydicom' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named pydicom already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mkurman/zorai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8ea1fc3ae126b6e103b8508bacd8f5aa60b6f4ad' -- 'skills/scientific-skills/pydicom' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/scientific-skills/pydicom' ~/.agents/skills/'pydicom' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'pydicom' ~/.claude/skills/'pydicom' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-13 | 8ea1fc3 | 80 |