pfdicom-tagSub 1.2.0

(Python) Process DICOM tags and performs substitutions -- part of the pf* family.

Quick Overview

• pfdicom_tagExtract generates reports in various formats based on DICOM tags

Overview

pfdicom_tagExtract extracts the header information of DICOM files and echoes to stdout as well as to an output report-type file – this can be a raw output, a json-type output, or html-type output.

The script accepts an <inputDir>, and then from this point an os.walk is performed to extract all the subdirs. Each subdir is examined for DICOM files (in the simplest sense by a file extension mapping) and either the head, tail, middle (or other indexed) file is examined for its tag information.

Optionally, the tag list can be constrained either by passing a <tagFile> containing a line-by-line list of tags to query, or by passing a comma separated list of tags directly.

Finally, an image conversion can also be performed (and embedded within the output html file, if an html conversion is specified).

Dependencies

The following dependencies are installed on your host system/python3 virtual env (they will also be automatically installed if pulled from pypi):

• pfmisc (various misc modules and classes for the pf* family of objects)

• pftree (create a dictionary representation of a filesystem hierarchy)

• pfidcom (handle underlying DICOM file reading)

• matplotlib (handle saving / conversion to image formats for html reports)

Installation

The best method of installing this script and all of its dependencies is by fetching it from PyPI

pip3 install pfdciom_tagExtract

Command line arguments

-I|--inputDir <inputDir>
Input DICOM directory to examine. By default, the first file in this
directory is examined for its tag information. There is an implicit
assumption that each <inputDir> contains a single DICOM series.

-i|--inputFile <inputFile>
An optional <inputFile> specified relative to the <inputDir>. If
specified, then do not perform a directory walk, but convert only
this file.

-e|--extension <DICOMextension>
An optional extension to filter the DICOM files of interest from the
<inputDir>.

[-O|--outputDir <outputDir>]
The directory to contain all output files.

-F|--tagFile <JSONtagFile>
Parse the tags and their "subs" from a JSON formatted <JSONtagFile>.

-T|--tagStruct <JSONtagStructure>
Parse the tags and their "subs" from a JSON formatted <JSONtagStucture>
passed directly in the command line.

-o|--outputFileStem <outputFileStem>
The output file stem to store data. This should *not* have a file
extension, or rather, any "." in the name are considered part of
the stem and are *not* considered extensions.

[--threads <numThreads>]
If specified, break the innermost analysis loop into <numThreads>
threads.

[-x|--man]
Show full help.

[-y|--synopsis]
Show brief help.

[--json]
If specified, output a JSON dump of final return.

-v|--verbosity <level>
Set the app verbosity level.

     -1: No internal output.
      0: All internal output.

Examples

Run on a target tree and output some detail and stats

pfdicom_tagSub                                      \
            -I /var/www/html/normsmall -e dcm       \
            -O /var/www/html/anon                   \
            --tagStruct '
            {
                "PatientName":       "anonomized",
                "PatientID":         "%_md5|7_PatientID",
                "AccessionNumber":   "%_md5|10_AccessionNumber",
                "PatientBirthDate":  "%_strmsk|******01_PatientBirthDate"
            }
            ' --threads 0 --printElapsedTime