Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go

Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by thakoppno on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:06AM (#25251148)

are there publicly available datasets of dicom images?

my fathers a retired radiologists and ive wondered if making an app that could display images would potentially stave off any cognitive decline in the future.

thank you

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by suyashkumar on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:16AM (#25254569)

Indeed, there are some good sources of public, deidentified medical images released under various generally permissive licenses.

I've found The Cancer Imaging Archive to be very useful in this regard: https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/ (some are also already preloaded into Google Cloud buckets: https://cloud.google.com/healthcare/docs/resources/public-da...

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by tannhaeuser on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:38AM (#25253138)

Medical imaging, like everything medical, nuclear, and military, has somewhat high barriers to entry due to legal requirements, eg getting sued b/c of the proverbial amputation of the wrong leg due to flipped display. Also, from my limited experience in the field, software for radiology workflows and archival, viewing workstations etc. are often expected as part of a deal for the imaging devices (X ray, MRT, etc.) themselves rather than as separate products.

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by VikingCoder on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:14AM (#25254551)

They have high barriers to "marketing." But if you find a radiologist who wants to work with you, using your software, that's their discretion, as long as you don't make "claims" about its efficacy for use. The way to Cover Your Assets is to have them use your software first, then REDO the read on another system marketed for the job. If they come up with a different set of results, you have work to do.

Source: 14 years in medical imaging.

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by viraptor on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:20AM (#25251193)

dicomlibrary.com Or start with the interesting studies and filter those that reference dicom datasets.

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by Raphmedia on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:56AM (#25254334)

Any idea how one could anonymize their dicom images? I have a disk of a CT Scan of my skull laying around but my medical information seem to be strongly linked to it (opening it in an online viewer displays my name, id, etc.) If it wasn't for that fact, I'd love to be able to upload it somewhere and help science.

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by danielheath on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:54PM (#25258838)

Entirely in browser: https://radiopaedia.org/standalone_dicom_anonymizer

Source at https://github.com/radiopaedia/dicomanon

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by VikingCoder on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:12AM (#25254531)

There are anonymization tools. I don't know if any are free / open source, sorry.

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Re:Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go by VikingCoder on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:53AM (#25251317)

Why not contribute to one of the many open source DICOM viewers?

https://www.postdicom.com/en/blog/top-25-free-dicom-viewers

This one always impressed me:

https://horosproject.org/

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