Giménez Silva Germán AlbertoCan Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor.
When I built ruby-libgd I included Sobel edge detection, Laplacian filter, Gaussian blur, and custom convolution as native C bindings. I knew those filters would be useful someday.
Turns out medical imaging is exactly that use case.
Full article with code and Jupyter notebook below.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/23/can-ruby-read-an-x-ray-building-a-medical-image-processor/
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Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor
Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Nobody expects Ruby to process medical images. That is exactly why I tried it. This article is a…