A Hybrid AI-based and Rule-based Approach to DICOM De-identification: A Solution for the MIDI-B Challenge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00437v1
• Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:52:15 GMT
• Title: A Hybrid AI-based and Rule-based Approach to DICOM De-identification: A Solution for the MIDI-B Challenge
• Authors: Hamideh Haghiri, Rajesh Baidya, Stefan Dvoretskii, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Marco Nolden,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a hybrid de-identification framework designed to process Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) files.<n>Our framework adopts a modified, pre-built rule-based component, updated with The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)'s best practices guidelines.<n>It incorporates PaddleOCR, a robust Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for extracting text from images, and RoBERTa, a fine-tuned transformer-based model for identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI)
• Score: 4.40986569501073
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Ensuring the de-identification of medical imaging data is a critical step in enabling safe data sharing. This paper presents a hybrid de-identification framework designed to process Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) files. Our framework adopts a modified, pre-built rule-based component, updated with The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)'s best practices guidelines, as outlined in DICOM PS 3.15, for improved performance. It incorporates PaddleOCR, a robust Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for extracting text from images, and RoBERTa, a fine-tuned transformer-based model for identifying and removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI). Initially, the transformer-based model and the rule-based component were integrated to process for both structured data and free text. However, this coarse-grained approach did not yield optimal results. To improve performance, we refined our approach by applying the transformer model exclusively to free text, while structured data was handled only by rule-based methods. In this framework the DICOM validator dciodvfy was leveraged to ensure the integrity of DICOM files after the deID process. Through iterative refinement, including the incorporation of custom rules and private tag handling, the framework achieved a de-identification accuracy of 99.91% on the MIDI-B test dataset. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining rule-based compliance with AI-enabled adaptability in addressing the complex challenges of DICOM de-identification.

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