Digital communications in medicine (DICOM) is an information standard, originally created for image transfer, which now deals with a large range of medical data.

This package provides functions to read and (eventually) write DICOM files in Octave, a scientific computation software. The functions in the package are intended to have similar usage as the dicom functions in the Matlab Image Processing Toolbox. In Octave they are separate: most image package users will not use dicom, and its dependency might be considered troublesome.

This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.