Replace pydicom-seg with highdicom and upgrade pydicom to 3.0.1

.github/workflows/docker-plugin.yml

@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ jobs:
       MONAI_ZOO_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.9
+          python-version: 3.10
       - name: clean up
         run: |
           sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.9
+          python-version: 3.10
       - name: Cache for pip
         uses: actions/cache@v4
         id: cache

docs/source/installation.rst

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Prerequisites
 --------------------------
 MONAI Label supports both **Ubuntu** and **Windows** OS with GPU/CUDA enabled.
 
-Make sure you have python 3.8/3.9 version environment with PyTorch and CUDA installed. MONAI Label features on other python version are not verified.
+Make sure you have python 3.10+ version environment with PyTorch and CUDA installed. MONAI Label features on other python version are not verified.
 
 - Install `Python <https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_
 - Install the following Python libraries

monailabel/config.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 
 def is_package_installed(name):
-    return name in (x.metadata.get("Name") for x in distributions())
+    return name in (x.metadata.get("Name") for x in distributions() if x.metadata is not None)
 
 
 class Settings(BaseSettings):