# suyashkumar/dicom

⚡High Performance DICOM Medical Image Parser in Go.

Repository: https://github.com/suyashkumar/dicom
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dicom
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: dicom, dicom-images, golang, golang-library, golang-package, parser, medical, medical-imaging, pacs, streaming, real-time, imaging, dicom-files, medical-image-analysis, dcm, go
Last push: 2026-06-21T03:39:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 17, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2877, "days_push": 73, "days_rel": 342, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1080, forks 160 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:30.603104+00:00)

## What it is
A high-performance, native Go library for parsing, reading, and writing DICOM medical image files, with channel-based streaming of frames as they are parsed. It also ships a CLI tool (dicomutil) that dumps DICOM metadata and exports images as PNG or JPEG.

## Use cases
- parse dicom medical image files in go
- extract frames from multi-frame dicom files
- convert dicom images to png or jpeg
- read dicom metadata and elements into
- stream dicom frames as they are parsed
- write dicom datasets back to dcm files
- inspect dicom files from the command line

## When to choose
- you need a pure-Go DICOM parser with no external dependencies
- you want high-performance or streaming access to DICOM frames
- you need both a library API and a CLI for DICOM inspection
- you want to serialize DICOM datasets to JSON

## When to avoid
- you need automatic color rescaling or advanced image processing
- you need a full PACS server or DICOM networking (DIMSE) implementation
- you work primarily in Python or another non-Go ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: parser, image-processing, serialization, cli
- domain: healthcare, files, developer-tools
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform
- tags: dicom, medical-imaging, pacs, dcm, streaming-frames, png-export, jpeg-export

## Member repositories
- suyashkumar/dicom (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:30.603104+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:53:00.785604+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/suyashkumar/dicom (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:30.603104+00:00, sha f7f12a503e45)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.