Extract information from DICOM images

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Extract information from DICOM images

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Hi all,
I need to extract information like Patient ID, Patient Name, slice number etc from DICOM images. How can this be done? I'm using MagickWand C implementation of ImageMagick. Can someone help me plz?
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Use MagickGetImageProperty() to get DCM properties. First try
  • identify -verbose image.dcm
and you will get the property names. You can then get the value associated with the property name with MagickGetImageProperty().
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