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====================
Anonymize DICOM data
====================

This example is a starting point to anonymize DICOM data.

It shows how to read data and replace tags: person names, patient ID,
optionally remove curves and private tags, and write the results in a new file.

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Anonymize a single file
##############################################################################

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.. code-block:: Python


    # authors : Darcy Mason
    #           Guillaume Lemaitre <g.lemaitre58@gmail.com>
    # license : MIT

    import tempfile

    from pydicom import examples

    ds = examples.mr

    for keyword in ["PatientID", "PatientBirthDate"]:
        print(ds.data_element(keyword))





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    (0010,0020) Patient ID                          LO: '4MR1'
    (0010,0030) Patient's Birth Date                DA: ''




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We can define a callback function to find all tags corresponding to a person
names inside the dataset. We can also define a callback function to remove
curves tags.

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    def person_names_callback(ds, elem):
        if elem.VR == "PN":
            elem.value = "anonymous"


    def curves_callback(ds, elem):
        if elem.tag.group & 0xFF00 == 0x5000:
            del ds[elem.tag]









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We can use the different callback function to iterate through the dataset but
also some other tags such that patient ID, etc.

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    ds.PatientID = "id"
    ds.walk(person_names_callback)
    ds.walk(curves_callback)








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pydicom allows to remove private tags using ``remove_private_tags`` method

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    ds.remove_private_tags()








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Data elements of type 3 (optional) can be easily deleted using ``del`` or
``delattr``.

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    if "OtherPatientIDs" in ds:
        delattr(ds, "OtherPatientIDs")

    if "OtherPatientIDsSequence" in ds:
        del ds.OtherPatientIDsSequence








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For data elements of type 2, this is possible to blank it by assigning a
blank string.

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    tag = "PatientBirthDate"
    if tag in ds:
        ds.data_element(tag).value = "19000101"








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Finally, this is possible to store the image

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    for keyword in ["PatientID", "PatientBirthDate"]:
        print(ds.data_element(keyword))

    path = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile().name
    ds.save_as(path)




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    (0010,0020) Patient ID                          LO: 'id'
    (0010,0030) Patient's Birth Date                DA: '19000101'





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