Medical Imaging: How to Translate Patient Information and Diagnostic Reports in DICOM Files?
“The metadata (tags) in imaging files such as X-ray and CT contain patient names and diagnostic descriptions, and are in binary format, making them unreadable by standard tools.”
Root Cause Analysis
DICOM Tag Parsing
Shangyi AI can read `.dcm` file headers, extract text information from specific Group/Element fields—such as (0010,0010) Patient Name and (0008,1030) Study Description—for translation, while preserving the image data section (Pixel Data) entirely intact.
Mandatory PII De-identification
Given the sensitivity of medical data, the system enables 'Strict Privacy Mode' by default when processing DICOM files. Unless the user has special authorization, patient name and ID fields will be automatically replaced with anonymized codes, and only the diagnosis description will be translated.
Specific Character Set Update
When translating English DICOM files into Chinese, the system automatically updates the file header’s (0008,0005) Specific Character Set tag (e.g., to ISO_IR 192 for UTF-8), ensuring that PACS imaging viewers can correctly display the Chinese translation.
Final Solution Summary
Facilitate international medical consultation and cross-language research data sharing, while strictly upholding privacy standards.