# New \`highdicom\` python library

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-highdicom-python-library/10468>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** dicom, python\
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-highdicom-python-library/10468 "2020-02-28T15:09:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/new-highdicom-python-library/10468/1 "2020-02-28T15:09:58Z")

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Good news for dicom developers: a new python library for has just been made public under the MIT license for multiframes, segmentation, reporting, and related topics. It can be `pip_install`ed into the Slicer nightly if you want to try it out. Longer term we can discuss how best to make use of it in Slicer, and potentially we can factor out some of the dicom code currently in Slicer’s `DICOMPlugin`s for this package.

> **[MGHComputationalPathology/highdicom](https://github.com/MGHComputationalPathology/highdicom)**
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> High-level DICOM abstractions for the Python programming language - MGHComputationalPathology/highdicom