Every Python DICOM tutorial starts the same way:

import pydicom ds = pydicom . dcmread ( " scan.dcm " ) print ( ds [ 0x0010 , 0x0010 ]. value ) # patient name??

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You memorize hex pairs. You copy-paste anonymization tag lists from Stack Overflow. You write the same VOI windowing helper for the third time on a new project.

I got tired of it. So I built DICOMForge.

What it looks like instead

from dicomforge.api import DicomFile f = DicomFile ( " scan.dcm " ) print ( f . patient_name , f . modality , f . slice_thickness )

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Named properties. No hex. No .value.…