Hello everyone, I am a beginner of 3D Slicer and i have a simple question: How to erase the information of patient on the CT or MR scan?

What you can easily do in Slicer is what @fedorov suggested above: save the image file as .nrrd file (menu: File / Save). You could find ways in Slicer to edit DICOM metadata but you are probably better off using dedicated tools. Why is it important for you to do the anonymization in Slicer?

If you want to remove protected health information from DICOM files you could look into DicomCleaner or CTP. http://www.dclunie.com/pixelmed/software/webstart/DicomCleanerUsage.html http://mircwiki.rsna.org/index.php?title=The_CTP_DICOM_Anonymizer

Note that you should always be extra careful, since sometime information that is not obvious must be removed to make the DICOM data de-identified. One may think that removing patient name and birth date is sufficient, but in reality the process is a lot a lot more complex. Because of this, it is us…

Thanks! Dicomcleaner is a very good software.I want to know whether the procedure can be done with 3d slicer?

Nothing specifically for deidentification in Slicer. Best to use one of the dedicated tools if you want to be confident in the results (it’s unfortaunately easy for patient identifying information to be left in the files by mistake).

Thanks to everyone! The best method to solve this problem is using dedicated tools. The most simple method is saving the image file an non-DICOM format. Sincerely!

Adage is a pretty good DICOM Anonymization tool. It is available for free and easily accessible here Adage - AI Medical

there is a good program where you can anonymize and change tags in one click. https://anonymizer.imv-ms.com/ .

Note that both these above-mentioned tools (Adage and IMV) are very basic, oversimplified tools. They don’t seem to offer essential anonymization techniques (such as randomizing patient birth date, study dates to keep the relative timestamp valid, etc.), and don’t even attempt to make the image cont…

Thanks, dear Andras, I always found your comments useful.

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