DICOM de-identification tool overview
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Specific use cases and requirements for de-identification
Requirements
- Client side processing
- Offline processing
- Platform and browser independent
- Provided as commandline tool?
- In-application processing should be possible?
- e.g. in MITK and Slicer?
- Specify conditions like if tag value is equal to XYZ then remove all private tags except of <tag list>
Some issues, which anonymization tools often have, found on the Plastimatch homepage, also providing a comparison:
- Some date fields cannot be changed (duh)
- It is not possible to preserve relative dates (for example, we would like to set StudyDate to Jan 1, 2000, but preserve the fact that StructureSetDate occurred 35 days later)
- Private tags are always deleted (on our GE scanner, these contain important acquisition details)
- Comments, diagnosis descriptions, or other fields cannot be reset (may contain protected information)
- It is not possible to modify strings (for example, the physician might type “smith-final” into the StructureSetName field, and we would like to delete “smith” but preserve “final” )
- UIDs are not changed, or relationships between UIDs are not preserved (duh)
Usecases
Available tools for DICOM de-identification
Toolname | Language | Available as cmd line? | Features | URL |
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Clinical Trial Processor | Java | http://mircwiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=CTP-The_RSNA_Clinical_Trial_Processor | ||
DICOM Cleaner | Java | http://www.dclunie.com/pixelmed/software/webstart/DicomCleanerUsage.html | ||
DICOM Confidential | Java | http://sourceforge.net/projects/privacyguard/ | ||
DICOM Browser | Java | Yes | Script based processing: Assignment / Deletion / Constraint and condition based / Built-in functions / Generators / user defined variables | http://nrg.wustl.edu/software/dicom-browser/ |
GDCM Anon | C++ | Yes | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/gdcmanon.html | |
DCMTK | C++ | |||
DICOM anon | Python | Yes | https://github.com/cbmi/dicom-anon |