DICOM MRI image

[Dhanya Sudhish]

I am new in octave and in medical image processing. I want to read a dicom image. What all packages I need? and Whats the fuction to read and show a dicom image? 

I am using linux mint operating.I want read to MRI slices from 3D volume.

I tried "pkg install -forge PACKAGE". I tried it on octave promt. "pkg install -forge image".The error message shown is e following dependencies where unsatisfied:

   image needs signal >= 1.2.0