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Conceptually this may be though of as the imaging equivalent of that.

As clinical radiologists, we expect post-processing, even taking them for granted.

However, the magic that occurs behind the scenes is no easy feat, so lets explore some of that magic.

We will extract voxel data from DICOM into numpy arrays, and then perform some low-level operations to normalize and resample the data, made possible using information in the DICOM headers.

Finally, we will create segmentation masks that remove all voxel except for the lungs.

Python has all the tools, from pre-packaged imaging process packages handling gigabytes of data at once to byte-level operations on a single voxel.

However, for learning and testing purposes you can use the National Lung Screening Trial chest CT dataset.

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He has an interest in data-driven radiology, quality improvement, and innovation.

Howard has an MD and MBA from Harvard University, and he finished training with fellowships in musculoskeletal radiology, nuclear medicine, and clinical imaging informatics in June 2018 from University of Pennsylvania.

However, after the resampling (taking into account we have different pixel spacing and slice thickness), we obtain volumes of different dimensions for each patient.

How would you recommend resizing in order to get for all patients a volume of dimensions XxYxZ, with spacing of 1x1x1 For me this makes more sense to be able to compare them.

It turns out it is a natural side effect: resampling isotropically means so all voxels are the same size but each exam will be different sizes (this is a common approach) because patients are different sizes.

This is because CT scans are commonly obtained at a constant 512 x 512 matrix.

Since each patient is different in size, what changes is the zoom (field-of-view), so each voxel represents a different number of mm in real life.

This means that each CT scan actually represents different dimensions in real life even though they are all 512 x 512 x Z slices.

My aim is to be able to feed a 3d Neural network with the volumes, and this requires that all of them have the same shape.

I understand the trade off you mention in the last paragraph, however, is there a transformation you could suggest to be able to get the images in the shape we want.

This should force all the resampled data to be in the same dimensions.

This problem is that some CT slices dont make final mask or just one lung mask.

In the code, B (minrow, mincol, maxrow, maxcol) in absolute pixel locations.

What is the best way to load them all to be put into a format to analyze the saved.npy files using PCA, neural network etc.

I.e. not sure how to put all.npy files together for analysis.

Popular packages like sklearn, tensorflow, and Keras all support Numpy variables.

Any learning algorithm can potentially benefit from doing this.