dicomtk: Comprehensive 'DICOM' Toolkit for Medical Imaging

A comprehensive R interface to the 'DICOM' Toolkit ('DCMTK'), providing native R bindings for reading, writing, modifying, and visualizing Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine ('DICOM') files. Features include 'tidyverse'-compliant data structures, 'ggplot2'-based image visualization, interactive 'Shiny' viewers, 'PACS' networking (C-ECHO, C-FIND, C-STORE, C-MOVE), structured report handling, 'DICOM' deidentification, and integration with local and cloud-based large language models ('LLM') via 'Ollama' and 'OpenAI'-compatible APIs for AI-assisted medical image analysis. The 'DCMTK' C++ library is bundled and compiled from source, requiring no external installation.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	Rcpp (≥ 1.0.12), tibble (≥ 3.0.0), dplyr (≥ 1.1.0), tidyr (≥ 1.3.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.0), ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), cli (≥ 3.6.0), httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), jsonlite (≥ 1.8.0), grDevices, graphics, stats, utils, tools
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	shiny (≥ 1.8.0), rgl (≥ 1.0.0), RNifti (≥ 1.5.0), testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown, withr, magick
Published:	2026-11-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.dicomtk (may not be active yet)
Author:	Yee How Lau [aut, cre], John Muschelli [ctb] (Original dcmtk R wrapper), OFFIS e.V. [cph] (DCMTK C++ library)
Maintainer:	Yee How Lau <lauyeehow1986 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/lauyeehow1986-hub/dicomtk/issues
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://github.com/lauyeehow1986-hub/dicomtk, https://lauyeehow1986-hub.github.io/dicomtk/
NeedsCompilation:	yes
SystemRequirements:	C++17, CMake (>= 3.10)
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	dicomtk results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	dicomtk.html , dicomtk.pdf
Vignettes:	DICOM Anonymization & HIPAA De-identification (source, R code) Getting Started with dicomtk (source, R code) DICOM Image Visualization: ggplot2, Clinical Windows, Shiny, and 3D Volumes (source, R code) AI & LLM Integration: Local Ollama, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude (source, R code) PACS Networking & DICOM Query/Retrieve (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	dicomtk_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: dicomtk_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: dicomtk_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): dicomtk_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): dicomtk_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): dicomtk_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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