{
  "id": 207837,
  "title": "DICOM Metadata Values interpretation",
  "url": "/competitions/vinbigdata-chest-xray-abnormalities-detection/discussion/207837",
  "author_name": "Sindhu V",
  "post_date": "2020-12-31T13:44:57.271000",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi all, <br>\nOne of the training files (<code>458a8766b1f96850e9f893e382058988.dicom</code>) has the following metadata:</p>\n<pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt;[(data_el.name, data_el.value) for data_el in ds if ...]\n[(\"Patient's Sex\", 'F'),\n(\"Patient's Age\", '238Y'),\n('Samples per Pixel', 1),\n ('Photometric Interpretation', 'MONOCHROME2'),\n ('Rows', 2878),\n ('Columns', 2575),\n ('Bits Allocated', 16),\n ('Bits Stored', 12),\n ('High Bit', 11),\n ('Pixel Representation', 0),\n ('Window Center', \"2413.0\"),\n ('Window Width', \"4537.0\"),\n ('Rescale Intercept', \"0.0\"),\n ('Rescale Slope', \"1.0\"),\n ('Lossy Image Compression', '00')]\n</code></pre>\n<p>Are these values human readable ones or are they also encoded in some way to hide patient details? Put simply, should we interpret <code>238Y</code> as 238 years and <code>000D</code> as 0 days or are these encoded values? Thanks.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1133750,
      "postDate": "2020-12-31T13:44:57.270Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi all, <br>\nOne of the training files (<code>458a8766b1f96850e9f893e382058988.dicom</code>) has the following metadata:</p>\n<pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt;[(data_el.name, data_el.value) for data_el in ds if ...]\n[(\"Patient's Sex\", 'F'),\n(\"Patient's Age\", '238Y'),\n('Samples per Pixel', 1),\n ('Photometric Interpretation', 'MONOCHROME2'),\n ('Rows', 2878),\n ('Columns', 2575),\n ('Bits Allocated', 16),\n ('Bits Stored', 12),\n ('High Bit', 11),\n ('Pixel Representation', 0),\n ('Window Center', \"2413.0\"),\n ('Window Width', \"4537.0\"),\n ('Rescale Intercept', \"0.0\"),\n ('Rescale Slope', \"1.0\"),\n ('Lossy Image Compression', '00')]\n</code></pre>\n<p>Are these values human readable ones or are they also encoded in some way to hide patient details? Put simply, should we interpret <code>238Y</code> as 238 years and <code>000D</code> as 0 days or are these encoded values? Thanks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi all, \nOne of the training files (`458a8766b1f96850e9f893e382058988.dicom`) has the following metadata:\n```python\n>>>[(data_el.name, data_el.value) for data_el in ds if ...]\n[(\"Patient's Sex\", 'F'),\n(\"Patient's Age\", '238Y'),\n('Samples per Pixel', 1),\n ('Photometric Interpretation', 'MONOCHROME2'),\n ('Rows', 2878),\n ('Columns', 2575),\n ('Bits Allocated', 16),\n ('Bits Stored', 12),\n ('High Bit', 11),\n ('Pixel Representation', 0),\n ('Window Center', \"2413.0\"),\n ('Window Width', \"4537.0\"),\n ('Rescale Intercept', \"0.0\"),\n ('Rescale Slope', \"1.0\"),\n ('Lossy Image Compression', '00')]\n```\nAre these values human readable ones or are they also encoded in some way to hide patient details? Put simply, should we interpret `238Y` as 238 years and `000D` as 0 days or are these encoded values? Thanks.",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 1133969,
      "postDate": "2020-12-31T17:41:52.770Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jdoesv\" target=\"_blank\">@jdoesv</a>  Please check this link , I guess it will resolve your doubt<br>\n<a href=\"http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi @jdoesv  Please check this link , I guess it will resolve your doubt\nhttp://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html"
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1133969,
      "author_name": "Suman Sarkar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-12-31T17:41:52.770000",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jdoesv\" target=\"_blank\">@jdoesv</a>  Please check this link , I guess it will resolve your doubt<br>\n<a href=\"http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html</a></p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1133750": "Hi all, \nOne of the training files (`458a8766b1f96850e9f893e382058988.dicom`) has the following metadata:\n```python\n>>>[(data_el.name, data_el.value) for data_el in ds if ...]\n[(\"Patient's Sex\", 'F'),\n(\"Patient's Age\", '238Y'),\n('Samples per Pixel', 1),\n ('Photometric Interpretation', 'MONOCHROME2'),\n ('Rows', 2878),\n ('Columns', 2575),\n ('Bits Allocated', 16),\n ('Bits Stored', 12),\n ('High Bit', 11),\n ('Pixel Representation', 0),\n ('Window Center', \"2413.0\"),\n ('Window Width', \"4537.0\"),\n ('Rescale Intercept', \"0.0\"),\n ('Rescale Slope', \"1.0\"),\n ('Lossy Image Compression', '00')]\n```\nAre these values human readable ones or are they also encoded in some way to hide patient details? Put simply, should we interpret `238Y` as 238 years and `000D` as 0 days or are these encoded values? Thanks.",
    "1133969": "Hi @jdoesv  Please check this link , I guess it will resolve your doubt\nhttp://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html"
  }
}