A Python package for anonymizing DICOM files. *DISCLAIMER* the anonymization provided this package is not guaranteed to be complete! In particular no effort is made to remove burned-in information from image files. Use at your own risk and you alone are responsible for ensuring your patient data is properly anonymized.
This package "works for me" but MAY NOT FULLY ANONYMIZE YOUR DICOM FILES.
- Free software: BSD license
- TODO
This will install dianonymous in your Python packages directory as well as a script called dianon in your Python scripts directory.
git clone [email protected]:randlet/dianonymous.git cd dianonymous python setup.py install
Running the dianonymous tests
git clone [email protected]:randlet/dianonymous.git cd dianonymous python setup.py nosetests
Anonymize a DICOM file and write to ./anonymize/
dianon path/to/file.dcm
Recursively anonymize all DICOM files in path/to/folder and write them to ./anonymize/
dianon -r path/to/folder
Recursively anonymize all DICOM files in path/to/folder and write them to different/output/path/
dianon -r -o different/output/path path/to/folder
Anonymize a DICOM file and write to ./anonymize/:
dianon -r -o different/output/path path/to/folder
From a Python script or interpreter
import dianonymous
paths_to_files_and_dirs = ["dir1/","dir2/","file1.dcm", "dir3/file2.dcm",...]
output_dir = "./anonymized"
dianonymous.anonymize(
paths_to_files_and_dirs,
output_dir,
anon_id = None, # optional string to use for output patient id
anon_name = None, # optional string to use for output patient name
recurse = False, # recurse any input subdirectories looking for dicom files
private = True, # delete any private tags
curves = True, # delete all curves
log = None, # optional object with a .write method
)
Ideas for the anonymizer were taken from both the pydicom and dicompyler packages