anonymize_dicom

Anonymize script for DICOM file or folder containing dicom files.

Simply removes or replaces patient sensitive information.

Authors

Rigshospitalet

• Claes Ladefoged [email protected]

Installation (under /opt/bin/anonymize_dicom):

git clone https://github.com/claesnl/anonymize_dicom.git
ln -s $HOME/anonymize_dicom/anonymize_dicom.py /opt/bin/anonymize_dicom

Usage:

usage: anonymize_dicom [-h] [--name NAME] original output

Convert DICOM to MINC

positional arguments:
  original     Folder or file of original dicom files
  output       Folder or file of anonymized dicom files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --name NAME  Name instead of patient name

Requires/Dependencies:

• dicom

Installation of dependencies:

Python tools:

pip install dicom

Version changes:

• 1.0.0 :: 2018-06-01 :: Added basic functionality working for one or more dicom-files
• 1.0.1 :: 2018-11-20 :: Added functionality to python3