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Pydicom is a Python toolkit for reading, writing, and manipulating DICOM medical imaging files, helping teams extract pixel data, manage metadata, anonymize records, convert to standard formats, and integrate with PACS workflows in healthcare research and radiology applications.

Read, inspect, write, transform, and safely preflight local DICOM datasets and pixel data with pydicom 3.0.2. Covers metadata, transfer syntaxes, compression plugins, frames, private elements, JSON export, and bounded de-identification review with strict PHI safety boundaries.

This skill extracts critical patient metadata (PHI) from DICOM headers using pydicom, and recursively pulls structured report narrative text from DICOM-SR content trees. It is essential for ingesting medical images into NLP pipelines, enabling subsequent de-identification and clinical text analysis.