How to extract a single field from DICOM Data

For my work I have to use DICOMINFO. However from the long list that appears I only need to see one or two lines of this. Is there any way of requesting only this data or a second line of code that I could add after DICOMINFO to extract the information that I need?

[Rik]

Not as far as I know. I just read the file in binary and then extracted the value that I needed.

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[ILÁN FRANCISCO CARRETERO JUCHNOWICZ]

Hi,

I recently contacted MathWorks Support and they have advised me the following solution:

''there is an undocumented way you might be able to extract 'dicominfo' faster. Please see the following example.

>> obj = images.internal.dicom.DICOMFile('CT-MONO2-16-ankle.dcm');

>> info = obj.getAttributeByName('SeriesTime');

This method first creates an object to extract the attributesNames and then use 'getAttributeByName' to read the information of a particular attribute. "

I have tried the commands detailed above and it works really well and faster than the dicominfo function.

I hope it helps you!

[Rik]

The dicominfo function works well and can handle a lot of damaged or not fully DICOM-compliant files. If you don't need that robustness it is painfully slow.

If you need a much faster version, you can use this FEX submission. I haven't compared the speed of that function with the code you just posted.

[ILÁN FRANCISCO CARRETERO JUCHNOWICZ]

okey Rik, thanks for the information!