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

March 23, 2026

Published on RubyStackNews

Nobody expects Ruby to process medical images.

That is exactly why I tried it.

This article is about building a medical image analysis prototype in pure Ruby using ruby-libgd as the rendering and pixel manipulation engine. No Python. No OpenCV. No NumPy. Just Ruby, pixels, and math.

The target: chest X-rays from the NIH public dataset. The goal: edge detection, region segmentation, and histogram analysis.

Here is what happened.

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