DCM2AVI - Conversion from DICOM to AVI

DCM2AVI is a command line application that allows to convert DICOM multi-frame images into AVI format. For example, X-ray angiographic (XA) and ultrasound (US) images can be compressed with a particular codec that is installed on the system (MPEG4, XVID, H.261, etc.). The generated AVI movies can be viewed with a conventional media player or integrated into presentations. Furthermore, compressed AVI files are usually much smaller than the original DICOM files and can, therefore, be transferred in significantly shorter time. However, AVI movies are not appropriate for primary diagnosis since diagnostically relevant details of the image data might get lost during compression.

Features in detail

DCM2AVI provides the following features:

• Support of all DICOM multi-frame image IODs for the generation of AVI movies
• Support of all DICOM single-frame image IODs for the generation of JPEG images
• Generation of BMP or JPEG overview images from DICOM images if required
• Support of uncompressed and compressed (JPEG, RLE, Deflated) DICOM images
• Batch mode and reading from DICOMDIR in addition to single DICOM file processing
• Selection of codecs and some codec parameters (quality, data rate, etc.)
• Automatic generation of output filenames according to a selectable pattern
• Export of particular, configurable DICOM header data into a text file
• Simple image processing operations such as VOI windowing and overlay rendering

Further details can be found in the documentation of the program DCM2AVI:
https://support.dcmtk.org/docs-products/dcm2avi.html

DCM2AVI ist only available for Windows. The tool is not freely available and must be licensed separately.