Concepts

Things in idiscore that are not necessarily code but require more explanation nonetheless

Glossary

Terms used throughout this documentation

IDIS core: Library that implements basic deidentification. Requires configuration before it can actually be used or deployed. Implements each of the standard DICOM confidentiality options.
DICOM deidentification option: DICOM Confidentiality options are a part of the DICOM standard which helps describe to which extent data is deidentified. In addition to a compulsory Basic profile there are 10 modifier options which either remove additional data, such as ‘Clean Pixel Data’ or which remove less data, such as ‘Retain Patient Characteristics’.
IDIS core configuration: All information needed by IDIS core to actually deidentify a DICOM dataset. Safe private tag definitions, the Confidentiality options to use, Pixel data definitions, and any custom additional options.
IDIS core instance: A specific version of the IDIS core library combined with a specific configuration. This can be deployed and used as is. This is the object that can be validated and tested against a collection of DICOM examples.
DICOM example: An annotated DICOM dataset. The annotations indicate for one or more DICOM tags whether the tag contains personal information or not. A DICOM example can be used to verify deidentification
IDIS verify: A library that can run one or more DICOM examples through an IDIS core instance and test whether deidentification is correct according to each example. Produces a Data Certificate Potentially also determines which
Data certificate: A list of DICOM examples which have been successfully passed through a IDIS Core instance IDIS Verify. For these examples the Core Instance is ‘certified’ to work properly. The data certificate can also be used to determine whether new data can be processed or not
DICOM example library: A collection of DICOM examples
DICOM example tool: CLI tool that makes it easy to collect, anonymize and annotate DICOM examples
PII: Personally Identifiable Information. Information in a DICOM dataset that can be used to trace back the dataset to a single person. Deidentification attempts to remove all such information