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by trickyager 3801 days ago
Most definitely. Using the pydicom library, you can view all of the metadata stored along with the images. For instance, the patient's telephone number is listed with a 540 area code.
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I have not and will not peek at the DICOM, but anyone else thinking about doing something like this should heed the preceding comments and be aware that stripping PHI headers is critical to deidentifying medical imaging data. Also, the imaging data itself can also be identifying — best practice for sharing deidentified neuroimaging data involves face-stripping.