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UC-423 Developing Support for DICOM medical Images
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the standard for storing and sharing medical image information. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is the leading open-source program for processing professional and scientific images; however, it is currently unable to open many modern DICOM images. The project goal is to update GIMP\u27s DICOM import plugin with code to support all types of DICOM images. After creating a C++ wrapper to incorporate the GDCM (Grassroots DICOM) library into the existing software, GIMP could import images that previously caused errors. The updated plugin has been submitted as a merge request and is currently being reviewed by the developers for the next software release. The next step would be to expand GIMP\u27s DICOM metadata and display multi-frame images to continue to better support medical professionals and researchers