Ability to specify which series to convert #146
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This PR proposes a small feature addition to the
dcm2niixcommand line interface, which allows the user to specify one or more DICOM data series that they wish to convert.My interest is in GUI development and data visualisation, so I would like to use
dcm2niixin the following way:Identify the DICOM series that are present, by only outputting BIDS sidecar
.jsonfiles:dcm2niix -b o ...Prompt the user to select which data series they wish to view.
Convert those series from DICOM to NIFTI, using the proposed
-ncommand line flag. For example, if the user only wishes to convert series 2 and 4, they would type:dcm2niix -n 2 -n 4 ...I am proposing this feature purely from a performance point of view - by limiting which series get converted, computational time, memory, and hard disk usage can all be kept down to only what is necessary.
I figured that, in the event that multiple DICOM series with the same series number are present,
dcm2niix's present behaviour of appending an alphabetical suffix to the series number in the generated file names would be acceptable.However, I am not particularly tied to use of the series number, so feel free to propose an alternate method of identifying which series to be converted!