Table 1.
DICOM fields containing protected health information of relevance to anonymization in our data sets and the needed action to those information (d: delete, w: overwrite).
| Attribute Name | Tag | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Instance Creator UID | (0008,0014) | w |
| SOP Instance UID | (0008,0018) | w |
| Accession Number | (0008,0050) | w |
| Institution Name | (0008,0080) | d |
| Institution Address | (0008,0081) | d |
| Referring Physician’s Name | (0008,0090) | d |
| Referring Physician’s Address | (0008,0092) | d |
| Referring Physician’s Telephone Numbers | (0008,0094) | d |
| Station Name | (0008,1010) | d |
| Study Description | (0008,1030) | d |
| Series Description | (0008,103E) | d |
| Institutional Department Name | (0008,1040) | d |
| Physician(s) of Record | (0008,1048) | d |
| Performing Physicians’ Name | (0008,1050) | d |
| Name of Physician(s) Reading Study | (0008,1060) | d |
| Operators’ Name | (0008,1070) | d |
| Admitting Diagnoses Description | (0008,1080) | d |
| Referenced SOP Instance UID | (0008,1155) | w |
| Derivation Description | (0008,2111) | d |
| Patient’s Name | (0010,0010) | w |
| Patient ID | (0010,0020) | w |
| Patient’s Birth Date | (0010,0030) | w |
| Patient’s Birth Time | (0010,0032) | w |
| Patient’s Sex | (0010,0040) | w |
| Other Patient Ids | (0010,1000) | w |
| Other Patient Names | (0010,1001) | w |
| Patient’s Age | (0010,1010) | w |
| Patient’s Size | (0010,1020) | w |
| Patient’s Weight | (0010,1030) | w |
| Medical Record Locator | (0010,1090) | d |
| Ethnic Group | (0010,2160) | d |
| Occupation | (0010,2180) | d |
| Additional Patient’s History | (0010,21B0) | d |
| Patient Comments | (0010,4000) | d |
| Device Serial Number | (0018,1000) | w |
| Protocol Name | (0018,1030) | d |
| Study Instance UID | (0020,000D) | w |
| Series Instance UID | (0020,000E) | w |
| Study ID | (0020,0010) | w |
| Frame of Reference UID | (0020,0052) | w |
| Synchronization Frame of Reference UID | (0020,0200) | w |
| Image Comments | (0020,4000) | d |
| Request Attributes Sequence | (0040,0275) | d |
| UID | (0040,A124) | w |
| Content Sequence | (0040,A730) | d |
| Storage Media File-set UID | (0088,0140) | w |
| Referenced Frame of Reference UID | (3006,0024) | w |
| Related Frame of Reference UID | (3006,00C2) | w |