filtering for DICOM files that have no .dcm extension
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Hi,
I am trying to run a MATLAB script that deals with DICOM files and would like the script to go into individual folders and grab all of the DICOMs within each folder. However, I am having trouble doing so because my DICOMs don't have a specific extension that I can filter for (no .dcm extensions; they are "Unix Executable Files").
Is there any other aspect of these DICOM files that I might be able to easily filter for? All I really want to do is skip over the ".", ".." and ".DS_Store" hidden files by doing so. I was considering filtering by name (the are all named a series of 8 numbers) but that seems like it would require another loop and I am wondering if there is an easier way to do this.
inputs{1, crun} = cellstr(spm_select('FPList'[allinput,'T1Rawunzip',filesep,OrderForDicoms3{1,crun}],'****'))
^Above is the way I currently have it set up ("allinput" is a path that is specified earlier, T1RawUnzip is a folder name, and OrderForDicoms3{1,crun} is referring to a mat file that has specific folder extensions listed).
What could go in the "****", or how could I edit this line in conjunction with other elements of the code so that it grabs the DICOMs and nothing else?
Thanks!
-Victoria
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Walter Roberson
on 28 Sep 2013
If you are using an OS-X or Linux system, then the file pattern "*" should refuse to match file or directory names that start with "."
Matt J
on 28 Sep 2013
Edited: Matt J
on 28 Sep 2013
You might try this FEX submission
I've used it to import images without DCM extensions, although I don't know if they were Unix Executable Files.
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Walter Roberson
on 29 Sep 2013
"Unix Executable File" is reported for files that have the "x" (execute) permission bit set in any of their basic permission access groups (user, group, other)
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