diff --git a/medsegpy/config.py b/medsegpy/config.py
index 44d0e9ca..274d1dd4 100644
--- a/medsegpy/config.py
+++ b/medsegpy/config.py
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ class Config(object):
     VAL_DATASET = ""
     TEST_DATASET = ""
 
+    # Inference only, with no evaluation
+    INFERENCE_ONLY = False
+
     # Cross-Validation-Parameters
     USE_CROSS_VALIDATION = False
     CV_FILE = ""
@@ -550,6 +553,7 @@ def summary(self, additional_vars=None):
                 "TRAIN_DATASET",
                 "VAL_DATASET",
                 "TEST_DATASET",
+                "INFERENCE_ONLY",
                 "",
                 "CATEGORIES",
                 "",
diff --git a/medsegpy/data/data_loader.py b/medsegpy/data/data_loader.py
index 3208192a..fa080e3b 100644
--- a/medsegpy/data/data_loader.py
+++ b/medsegpy/data/data_loader.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 from medsegpy.config import Config
 from medsegpy.modeling import Model
 from medsegpy.utils import env
+from pydicom import dcmread
 
 from .data_utils import add_background_labels, collect_mask, compute_patches
 from .transforms import apply_transform_gens, build_preprocessing
@@ -242,8 +243,13 @@ def _load_input(self, dataset_dict):
         if self._cached_data is not None:
             image, mask = self._cached_data[(image_file, sem_seg_file)]
         else:
-            with h5py.File(image_file, "r") as f:
-                image = f["data"][:]
+            if image_file.endswith('.dcm'):
+                ds = dcmread(image_file)
+                image = ds.pixel_array
+            else:
+                with h5py.File(image_file, "r") as f:
+                    image = f["data"][:]
+        
             if image.shape[-1] != 1:
                 image = image[..., np.newaxis]
 
@@ -323,7 +329,11 @@ def _restructure_data(self, vols: Sequence[np.ndarray]):
             axes = (1, 2, 0)
             if v.ndim > 3:
                 axes = axes + tuple(i for i in range(3, v.ndim))
-            new_vols.append(v.transpose(axes))
+            # new_vols.append(v.transpose(axes))
+            if v.ndim == 1:
+                new_vols.append(v)
+            else:
+                new_vols.append(v.transpose(axes))
         vols = (np.squeeze(v) for v in new_vols)
         return tuple(vols)
 
@@ -337,6 +347,9 @@ def inference(self, model: Model, **kwargs):
 
         workers = kwargs.pop("workers", self._cfg.NUM_WORKERS)
         use_multiprocessing = kwargs.pop("use_multiprocessing", workers > 1)
+        
+        kwargs["batch_size"] = 1
+
         for scan_id in scan_ids:
             self._dataset_dicts = scan_to_dict_mapping[scan_id]
 
diff --git a/medsegpy/evaluation/evaluator.py b/medsegpy/evaluation/evaluator.py
index 7103d3f5..6230bfe2 100644
--- a/medsegpy/evaluation/evaluator.py
+++ b/medsegpy/evaluation/evaluator.py
@@ -139,7 +139,10 @@ def inference_on_dataset(
 
     eval_start = time.perf_counter()
     logger.info("Begin evaluation...")
-    results = {e.__class__.__name__: e.evaluate() for e in evaluator}
+    if any([e._config.INFERENCE_ONLY for e in evaluator]):
+        results = None
+    else:
+        results = {e.__class__.__name__: e.evaluate() for e in evaluator}
     total_eval_time = time.perf_counter() - eval_start
     logger.info("Time Elapsed: {:.4f} seconds".format(total_compute_time + total_eval_time))
     # An evaluator may return None when not in main process.
diff --git a/medsegpy/evaluation/sem_seg_evaluation.py b/medsegpy/evaluation/sem_seg_evaluation.py
index 6b8c192a..2da2b5d8 100644
--- a/medsegpy/evaluation/sem_seg_evaluation.py
+++ b/medsegpy/evaluation/sem_seg_evaluation.py
@@ -163,15 +163,16 @@ def eval_single_scan(self, input, output, labels, time_elapsed):
 
         metrics_kwargs = {"spacing": spacing} if spacing is not None else {}
 
-        summary = metrics_manager(
-            scan_id, y_true=y_true, y_pred=labels, x=x, runtime=time_elapsed, **metrics_kwargs
-        )
-
-        logger_info_str = "Scan #{:03d} (name = {}, {:0.2f}s) = {}".format(
-            scan_cnt, scan_id, time_elapsed, summary
-        )
-        self._results_str = self._results_str + logger_info_str + "\n"
-        logger.info(logger_info_str)
+        if not self._config.INFERENCE_ONLY:
+            summary = metrics_manager(
+                scan_id, y_true=y_true, y_pred=labels, x=x, runtime=time_elapsed, **metrics_kwargs
+            )
+
+            logger_info_str = "Scan #{:03d} (name = {}, {:0.2f}s) = {}".format(
+                scan_cnt, scan_id, time_elapsed, summary
+            )
+            self._results_str = self._results_str + logger_info_str + "\n"
+            logger.info(logger_info_str)
 
         if output_dir and save_raw_data:
             save_name = "{}/{}.pred".format(output_dir, scan_id)
diff --git a/medsegpy/modeling/model.py b/medsegpy/modeling/model.py
index d514653d..34c650be 100644
--- a/medsegpy/modeling/model.py
+++ b/medsegpy/modeling/model.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def inference_generator(
         workers=1,
         use_multiprocessing=False,
         verbose=0,
+        batch_size=None
     ):
         return self.inference_generator_static(
             self, generator, steps, max_queue_size, workers, use_multiprocessing, verbose
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ def inference_generator_static(
         workers=1,
         use_multiprocessing=False,
         verbose=0,
+        batch_size=None
     ):
         """Generates predictions for the input samples from a data generator
         and returns inputs, ground truth, and predictions.
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ def inference_generator_static(
                 workers=workers,
                 use_multiprocessing=use_multiprocessing,
                 verbose=verbose,
+                batch_size=batch_size
             )
         else:
             return model._inference_generator_tf1(
@@ -295,6 +298,7 @@ def _inference_generator_tf2(
                         batch_x, batch_y, batch_x_raw = _extract_inference_inputs(next(iterator))
                         # tmp_batch_outputs = predict_function(iterator)
                         tmp_batch_outputs = model.predict(batch_x)
+
                         if data_handler.should_sync:
                             context.async_wait()  # noqa: F821
                         batch_outputs = tmp_batch_outputs  # No error, now safe to assign.