DEID dropping UIDs

[peter-kuzmak]

Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to DEID and very inexperienced with Python. I do have three decades of experience with DICOM though and have used commercial products to do deidentification in the past.

We would like to use DEID in the future.

My first program is from the Getting Started web tutorial. We I try it, the parser deletes the SOP Instance UID (0008,00118), Study Instance UID (0020,000D), Series Instance UID (0020,000E), Instance Number (0020,0013), Media Storage SOP Instance UID (0002,0003) and Reference SOP Instance UID (0008,1155). It did add Patient Identity Removed (0012,0062). I am using a different DICOM object than the ones provided in deid_data.

I have a minimal recipe:

FORMAT dicom

%header

KEEP SOPInstanceUID ADD PatientIdentityRemoved YES

The web example retains the same UIDs.

Any idea why the UIDs are been dropped?

Thanks!

Peter Kuzmak, Department of Veterans Affairs