[feature request] provide dicom directory as input

[greydongilmore]

There are some great workflows to convert a directory of dicoms into a BIDS compliant format. However, the source dicoms remain identifiable which limits the ability to share source data. At our institute, we have encountered some instances where the source dicoms were requested in-place of the nifti files.

Would it be possible to add functionality for pydeface to accept a directory of dicoms and return defaced dicoms (assuming conversion to nifti and back)?

[poldrack]

we would be open to a contribution to add that feature, but I'm not sure anyone on our team right now has the time to add it.

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:28 AM Greydon Gilmore ***@***.***> wrote: There are some great workflows to convert a directory of dicoms into a BIDS compliant format. However, the source dicoms remain identifiable which limits the ability to share source data. At our institute, we have encountered some instances where the source dicoms were requested in-place of the nifti files. Would it be possible to add functionality for pydeface to accept a directory of dicoms and return defaced dicoms (assuming conversion to nifti and back)? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#37>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGUVEHXLLJ64G654AVBNULSM4GNFANCNFSM4TBHAS5Q> .

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[greydongilmore]

can certainly do that.
The approach I would take would be convert input dicoms to nifti with dcm2niix, run pydeface, convert back to dicom using Nifti2Dicom. Would this be suitable?

[poldrack]

sounds reasonable to me...

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:58 PM Greydon Gilmore ***@***.***> wrote: can certainly do that. The approach I would take would be convert input dicoms to nifti with dcm2niix, run pydeface, convert back to dicom using Nifti2Dicom. Would this be suitable? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#37 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGUVEFOHUKIWPQHN235QODSM467PANCNFSM4TBHAS5Q> .

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[effigies]

IMO, time would be better spent making sure pydeface integrates nicely with a third-party tool that wraps a DICOM-NIfTI-DICOM round trip.

@greydongilmore Did you ever work on this?