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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Biol Med. 2019 Feb 5;107:109–117. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.01.018

Table 1.

DICOM headers (tags) for identifying and qualifying targets to be processed. Scan Option and Slice Thickness headers are used to filter out the unintended data. Patient Comments, which is (0010,4000), is the target header that is modified or edited to be uploaded to the server. All three scanners we used in the study (Siemens, Philips, and GE) have the ‘Scan Options’ and ‘Slice Thickness’ header, but as for the ‘Patient Comments’, they do not. We used this header to specify the directory and location of the data at the server since they can include most essential information of the DICOM files: Project ID, Subject ID, and Session ID.

Tag Description Value
(0018, 0022) Scan Options Ex: Helical Mode,
Dose Report, Scout Image
(0018, 0050) Slice Thickness Float number variance
(0010, 4000) Patient Comments ‘ProjectID-SubjectID-SessionID’