# Unable to load DICOM segmentation

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-load-dicom-segmentation/22947>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation, dicom\
**Created:** [April 13, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-load-dicom-segmentation/22947 "2022-04-13T19:36:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-load-dicom-segmentation/22947/6 "2022-04-13T20:54:47Z")

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We use DCMQI’s DICOM Segmentation Object converter. Developers of this tool, with close consultation with DICOM experts, concluded that it is not a good idea to use RLE encoding on top of bitpacking and so they do not support it, either for reading or writing. See some information [here](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dicom-rle-support-in-slicer/17656/5).

If you remove the RLE transfer syntax from your DICOM C-store SCP configuration and send the segmentation from BrainLab again then you will get the segmentation in an uncompressed format.

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