Data Sets

DICOM Conformance Tests

New CLOSEDPLANAR_XOR contour geometric type (DICOM 2021d)

• CT, RTSTRUCT Test  (update 27.01.2022)

New Encapsulated Uncompressed Explicit VR Little Endian Transfer Syntax

• Test

• Test (RGB) 

VR

• DICOM 2022 VRs Conformance Test (update 2022.11.09)

Position and Orientation of Frames in Non-uniform Multi-frame Image

• Multi-frame Grayscale Word Secondary Capture Image Storage, multi-frame overlay

DICOM Color

• Color files, 1920 x 1080 px (update 2023.04.04)

Unicode (UTF-8)

• Specific Character Set ISO_IR 192

DICOM Sample Data Sets

MR DWI

• GE

• GE

• GE, big endian

• GE

• Philips

• Philips

• Philips

• Philips

• Philips

• Philips

• Philips, big endian

• Philips, multi-frame

• Siemens, mosaic

• Siemens

• Siemens, mosaic

• SIemens, mosaic

• Siemens, big endian, mosaic

• United Imaging Healthcare, grid / VFrame

• United Imaging Healthcare

MR Image Storage

• Philips liver study, PR, DICOMDIR

• Siemens, diffusion/trace, 3D+Bvalue

• SIemens, fractional anisotropy

• Siemens, overlay in pixel data

• United Imaging Healthcare MR, T1

• fMRI, supplemental palette

• Siemens, fMRI 3D+t, mosaic

• Siemens, fMRI 3D+t, mosaic

• United Imaging Healthcare, fMRI 3D+t, epi_dti, grid / VFrame

• United Imaging Healthcare, fMRI 3D+t, bold, grid / VFrame

• United Imaging Healthcare, fMRI 3D+t, epi_dti

• Philips, 3D+t, non-uniform (circular), overlay

Enhanced MR Image Storage

• Philips brain study, Spectroscopy, PR, DICOMDIR

• Philips knee study, PR, DICOMDIR

• Philips, 1 of 2 series is non-uniform

• Philips, perfusion

• 2D+t

• Brucker

MR Spectroscopy Storage

• Siemens

Legacy Converted Enhanced MR Image Storage

• Aliza

• Aliza

Enhanced MR Color Image Storage

• Aliza, DTI color map ¹

• Aliza, DTI color map, lossy JPEG ¹

CT Image Storage

• Toshiba

• GE, non-equistant, gantry/detector tilt

• TCIA, Siemens, PET study

Bakr, Shaimaa; Gevaert, Olivier; Echegaray, Sebastian; Ayers, Kelsey; Zhou, Mu; Shafiq, Majid; Zheng, Hong; Zhang, Weiruo; Leung, Ann; Kadoch, Michael; Shrager, Joseph; Quon, Andrew; Rubin, Daniel; Plevritis, Sylvia; Napel, Sandy.(2017). Data for NSCLC Radiogenomics Collection. The Cancer Imaging Archive. http://doi.org/10.7937/K9/TCIA.2017.7hs46erv

• Aliza, RTSRUCT

Enhanced CT Image Storage

• non-uniform, rotation

• perfusion 3D+t, supplemental color palette

Legacy Converted Enhanced CT Image Storage

• Aliza, abdomen

• Aliza, PET fusion, color, lossy JPEG (not standard conform)

• Aliza, Inner Ear Atlas ², supplemental color palette ³

• Aliza, Inner Ear Atlas ², supplemental color palette, RLE

Enhanced US Volume Storage

• GE, 3D+t, lossy JPEG

Ultrasound Multi-frame Image Storage

• Philips, 2D+t,  lossy JPEG

• Acuson, 2D+t, lossy JPEG

• Acuson,  2D+t, lossy JPEG

• GE, 2D+t, RLE

Ultrasound Image Storage

• Aixplorer

• Aixplorer

• GE, lossy JPEG

• GE, pixel spacing, Kretztechnik non-cartesian volume

• Philips, RLE, palette color

• Philips, 16 bit palette color, aspect ratio

• Kretztechnik, Kretztechnik non-cartesian volume

X-Ray Angiographic Image Storage

• 2D+t Philips

• 2D+t GE, variable frame times, display shutter

X-Ray 3D Angiographic Image Storage

• Siemens

Enhanced XA Image Storage

• Siemens, non-uniform, rotation

X-Ray 3D Craniofacial Image Storage

• Kodac, X-Ray 3D Craniofacial Image Storage

Surface Segmentation Storage

• Siemens, mesh

• Aliza, abdomen study, meshes, labels

• TCIA, SEG (binary images, file with two segmentations), CT , see © below

Heller, N., Sathianathen, N., Kalapara, A., Walczak, E., Moore, K., Kaluzniak, H., Rosenberg, J., Blake, P., Rengel, Z., Oestreich, M., Dean, J., Tradewell, M., Shah, A., Tejpaul, R., Edgerton, Z., Peterson, M., Raza, S., Regmi, S., Papanikolopoulos, N., Weight, C.  (2019) Data from C4KC-KiTS  [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. DOI: 10.7937/TCIA.2019.IX49E8NX 

Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, Freymann J, Kirby J, Koppel P, Moore S, Phillips S, Maffitt D, Pringle M, Tarbox L, Prior F. (2013) The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 26, Number 6, December, 2013, pp 1045-1057. DOI: 10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7

Parametric Map Storage

• PixelMed, float data

• PixelMed, float data

Nuclear Medicine Image Storage

• palette color 16 bit

Digital Mammography X-Ray Image Storage - For Presentation

• DCMTK, JPEG-LS

X-Ray Radiofluoroscopic Image Storage

• Philips, 2D+t, display shutter

Hardcopy Grayscale Image Storage

• DCMTK

• DCMTK

• DCMTK, aspect ratio

Private Transfer Syntax

• Philips, CT, CT-private-ELE

• GE, XA, Implicit VR Big Endian DLX

• GE, CT, Implicit VR Big Endian DLX

Private Storage Class

• Philips, US, Philips 3D

• GE, XA, GE Private 3D Model Storage

Well-known Bugs

• JPEG 16 predictor bug 

• JPEG 16 Cornell bug

Other DICOM

• Philips Secondary Capture, 16 bits allocated/8 bits stored

• Siemens Secondary Capture, color

• Internationalized Character Test

• Aliza Secondary Capture, multi-frame

• PixelMed, Whole Slide Microscopy, lossy JPEG RGB

Other formats

3rd Party

• Orientation tests RPI and LPI (Nifti),  all (MetaImage)

• MNI ICBM152 Brain Atlas (Nifti)

• 4D fMRI (Nifti)

• 4D Cardio (Nifti)

• RGB float (MINC2)

• RGB float (MetaImage)

• RGB float (TIFF)

• RGBA unsigned short (PNG)

• MR (PhilipsREC)

• MR (MGH)

• US (Kretztechnik)

Aliza Exports

• Fibers (VTK)

• 3D MR T1 (MetaImage)

• 3D MR T1 (Nifti)

• 3D MR T1 (Nrrd)

• 3D Image (VTK)

• 4D RGB8 (MetaImage)

• 4D RGB8 (Nrrd)

• 4D RGB8 (Nifti)

• 4D RGB16 (MetaImage)

• 4D RGB16 (Nrrd)

• 4D RGB16 (Nifti)

Sites with data sets collections

• TCIA

• ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/DataSets/

• ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/Multiframe/

• UPMC Breast Tomography and FFDM Collection

• Full field digital mammography (FFDM) images

• Offis DICOM test images

• ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/images/ddsm/

• LONI Atlases

• SRI24 Atlas: Normal Adult Brain Anatomy

• OpenfMRI