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Parsing Dicom results with Python

I'm trying to parse the results page from a dicom study. I've tried with pydicom but it only parses the "header" info (patient info, device info, etc.). I'd like to extract the numeric results from the study in text format. In the following example:

Results sample

I'd like to get a text with these lines:

R EIA 1.13m/s 53 0.14m/s 53

R CFA 0.69m/s 53 0.11m/s 53

etc...

Is there any way to parse this data in Python or any other language to text, with some degree of accuracy? I've tried grabbing PixelData with pydicom, dump it to TIFF format and then performing OCR. The results are quite good, but all the 6's and the 3's are confused by 8's.

Thanks!

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Solution

  • as your data stored as pixel-data not attached report , you dont have choice but choose an OCR for values OR you can ask your device manufacturer about if the modality can produce these values as SR/PDF report with the study , some devices do this .