DICOM Medical Imaging Support

[buddha314]

Summary

Enable viewing DICOM medical imaging files and searching open-source medical imaging repositories like The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA). Allows analysis of diagnostic images alongside scientific papers.

Priority: P2 (Medium)
Estimated Time: 38-54 hours
Labels: client, backend, feature, medical-imaging, P2, phase-3

See USER_STORY_DICOM_VISUALIZATION.md for complete specification.

Key Use Cases:

• Load and view DICOM CT/MRI scans in 3D
• Search TCIA for medical imaging datasets
• Volume rendering in VR
• Link imaging data to related papers

Key Tasks:

• Backend: Install pydicom, create DICOM parser
• Backend: Integrate TCIA REST API client
• Backend: Index Awesome DICOM repository for RAG
• Frontend: Integrate DICOM viewer (Cornerstone.js)
• Frontend: Create Volume3D component for VR
• Agent: Enable natural language imaging queries

Dependencies:

• Issue Phase 1: Set up FastAgent backend with agent coordinator #10: Complete Agents
• Issue Document API Integration (Client) #38: Document API Integration
• Issue Agent-Assisted Paper Discovery #37: Agent-Assisted Paper Discovery

Privacy Note: All DICOM files must be anonymized (HIPAA compliance)