[loarake]

The original source is taken from a medical image DICOM viewer. In my limited experience as a medical physics student, the people working with these tools would really benefit from a comment explaining the code. They are most definitely not coders, most of them having barely done anything more than write a few matlab scripts.

[duaneb]

This is hardly a typical environment. All code would be challenging, even commented code. Excessive commenting would be necessary: write the program again in English.