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Are you sure? I see his doctor's phone number and address but that's it.
by tedivm 11y ago
Are you sure? I see his doctor's phone number and address but that's it.
- trickyager 11y agoMost definitely. Using the pydicom library, you can view all of the metadata stored along with the images. For instance, the patient's telephone number is listed with a 540 area code.
- dewarrn1 11y agoI have not and will not peek at the DICOM, but anyone else thinking about doing something like this should heed the preceding comments and be aware that stripping PHI headers is critical to deidentifying medical imaging data. Also, the imaging data itself can also be identifying — best practice for sharing deidentified neuroimaging data involves face-stripping.
- barrkel 11y agoAbout 20% of the file is metadata, from a brief scan of it.