Grassroots dicom is a c++ library for dicom medical files. it is automatically wrapped to python/c#/java (using swig). it supports raw,jpeg (lossy/lossless),j2k,jpeg-ls, rle and deflated.

install this package for the gdcmanon, gdcmconv, gdcmdiff, gdcmdump, gdcmpap3, gdcmgendir, gdcmimg, gdcminfo, gdcmpdf, gdcmraw, gdcmscanner, gdcmscu, gdcmtar, gdcmxml programs.