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We believe this tool might be useful to the rest of the research community and so it's been made freely available as an open source application. We have also created documentation for how a researcher could utilize in the context of their own projects. This can be found at https://mirgforge.wustl.edu/gf/project/dicomtagsniffer/.
TCIA De-identification Work Flow
The TCIA provides standards‐based curation support to ensure safe and thorough de‐identification of all images in the archive per federal HIPAA and HITECH regulations. In order to achieve this compliance without stripping the data of its scientific utility TCIA staff perform a redundant, thorough de‐identification and analysis procedure based on guidance provided by the industry experts in DICOM standards committee Working Group 18. Each collection submitted for publication is analyzed and de-identified as a whole using the steps listed below. All steps are completed before the collection is released for publication.
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Only after this inspection is complete are the images made available to the general public. For general information on what to expect as an image provider please see our web site at http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/provider.html.
Software Tools for DICOM analysis
In order to simplify our ability to implement some of the "clean" instructions specified in Supplement 142 a new tool was developed to help inspect the contents of DICOM elements which allow free text entry by a technician and Private Tags for potential PHI. We believe this tool might be useful to the rest of the research community and so it's been made freely available as an open source application. We have also created documentation for how a researcher could utilize in the context of their own projects:
Additional tools are currently being developed and these will also be released and documented here once they are stable.
Manufacturer Specific Private Tags
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