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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.

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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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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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