Support for DICOM Files. MATLAB DATABASE TOOLBOX RELEASE NOTES

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Image Processing Toolbox 3.1 Release Notes

Support for DICOM Files

Version 3.0 adds functions for reading image data and metadata from DICOM files. DICOM is an important file and network interchange standard in the area of medical imaging.

Function dicomread dicominfo

Description

Read image data from DICOM file

Read metadata from DICOM file

Miscellaneous

Version 3.1 included several new utility functions or previously undocumented utility functions. Most of these were created to support functions in the key feature categories, such as deconvolution.

Function circshift graythresh im2mis imnoise label2rgb padarray regionprops stretchlim

Description

Shift array circularly

Compute global image threshold using

Otsu's method (image enhancement)

Convert image to Java

MemoryImageSource

Added support for new noise types:

'poisson' and 'localvar'

Convert label matrix to RGB image [New for Version 3.1]

Pad array

Renamed from existing function imfeature; extended to N-D

Find limits to contrast stretch an image

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