From bb4dad72aa4b1e2ddf9bf521b1bcb5b2f21c01d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Umar Yousafzai <39500143+uyousafzai54@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 15:00:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add stop_before_pixels tag and set to True to speed up dcm
 reads (#80)

AYE AYE
---
 imgtools/utils/crawl.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/imgtools/utils/crawl.py b/imgtools/utils/crawl.py
index 732691d..666fb4d 100644
--- a/imgtools/utils/crawl.py
+++ b/imgtools/utils/crawl.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def crawl_one(folder):
                 rel_path  = dcm_path.relative_to(folder_path.parent.parent)                                        # rel_path of dicom from folder
                 rel_posix = rel_path.parent.as_posix()     # folder name + until parent folder of dicom
 
-                meta      = dcmread(dcm, force=True)
+                meta      = dcmread(dcm, force=True, stop_before_pixels=True)
                 patient   = str(meta.PatientID)
                 study     = str(meta.StudyInstanceUID)
                 series    = str(meta.SeriesInstanceUID)