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Reads DICOM file headers and DICOM-SR (Structured Report) content to pull study/series metadata and embedded report text, and flags PHI carried in header tags. Use before OpenMed processing when ingesting imaging data (CT/MR/CR/US, radiology SR) and you need the report narrative de-identified and analyzed, plus a list of header tags that must be scrubbed. Hand SR/report text to openmed.deidentify and openmed.analyze_text; use pydicom to read tags. Trigger keywords: DICOM, pydicom, DICOM-SR…
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What the file says
# Extracting DICOM Metadata & Report Text for OpenMed DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) files carry far more than pixels: a **header** of tagged attributes (patient, study, series, equipment) and, for **DICOM-SR (Structured Reports)**, a content tree holding the actual radiology/cardiology *report text*. Two jobs sit here: pull the report narrative for NLP, and **flag the PHI in the header** so it gets scrubbed. This skill does both, then hands narrative to OpenMed. Header tags are read with `pydicom` (external, MIT-licensed); de-identification of the extracted text is OpenMed's. ## When to use - You ingest DICOM from PACS/VNA or a research archive and want the SR report text mined with clinical NLP. - You must enumerate PHI-bearing header tags before sharing/exporting images. - You have DICOM-SR objects (e.g. radiology measurements + impression) whose content tree contains the dictated report. ## DICOM headers in one minute Every attribute has a **tag** `(gggg,eeee)` (group, element), a **VR** (value representation, e.g. `PN` person name, `DA` date, `UI` UID), and a value. PHI clusters in well-known tags: | Tag | Name | VR | Notes | …
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Source
maziyarpanahi/openmed · 5,784 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch master
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