Error using dicom_getFileDetails. Unable to load file .dcm

Am using dicom images in my research project. ('m using Matlab_R2021b on MacBook Air, with the Image processing toolbox).

Currently trying to read series of dicom images but I keep getting errors beacause Matlab is not able to upload the DICOM images.

I can open them correctly from external apps and with the DICOM Browser on Matlab, but I cannot run any code becuase I get errors. I tried to read them with info = dicomread('IM-001.dcm') and i got:

Error using dicom_getFileDetails

File "IM-001.dcm" not found.

Error in dicomread>newDicomread

fileDetails = dicom_getFileDetails(filename);

(Before each "run" i delete the DS_Store files in the terminal. The images is took correctly in the pathway).

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Walter Roberson]

The .DS_Store is not relevant to any of this.

Your current directory is not where the files are, and you are not providing the directory at the time you ask to read the file.

[Anna]

Thanks for the reply. I had provided the correct path and the dicomread function was going correctly. However, if I use functions of external tools, it cannot read the image data correctly.

Answer 1

[yanqi liu]

yes，sir，may be check the filepath，use absolute path string，such as

if your dcm in c:/folder/ ，then use

info = dicomread('c:/folder/IM-001.dcm')

Answer 2

[Simon Chan]

Use function fullfile to indicate the full path to the file.

filename = 'IM-001.dcm';
selpath = uigetdir(pwd,'Select image folder');  % Use uigetdir to selecte the folder
info = dicomread(fullfile(selpath,filename));   % Do dicomread