31_Jan_2007 < Debabeler

UPDATE: The Inspector is now available for viewing metadata from many different file formats.

Here are answers to your questions (in order):
- 1) The DiD removes the patient name and other strings from each file. The birthdate and study dates/times are not removed. Numbers are not removed if they are not stored as strings.
- 2) The image data is not modified in any way.
- 3) We typically use an in-house tool to view metadata. It has bugs and therefore is not available to the public. I don't know that much about other tools out there.
- 4) Type "java -jar loniDeidentifyDebablet.jar -help" for the command line options. Each time you run with command line options, each file you specify will receive the unique id you specify. To assign many unique ids, you must execute a command for each unique id.

I am using the LONI DiD bablet to de-identify GE Genesis files as well as ANALYZE files and have a few of questions:
- 1) Does the DiD algorithm only removes names from the header, not numbers? (i.e. birthdate)
- 2) What, if anything, does the DiD algorithm do to the image data?(Does is "scramble" the skull voxels?)
- 3) What tool do you recommend using to verify that all HIPPAA data has been removed from the header after running the DiD bablet?
- 4) How can I batch files to be de-identified and assign unique IDs to each file?

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