The MODALIZER Batch project came to solve a very common setup in which multiple non-DICOM imaging devices save JPEG images in folders and the data has to be somehow imported to the PACS.
The challenge is to automatically assign the images to the correct patient. This task comes in many variants and the solution usually involves resolving the patient id or accession number to full patient and procedure information modules using DICOM Query or DICOM Modality Worklist Query.
The key for the query usually comes from the filenames of the JPEG images that the modalities saved on the disk. Using a simple filename pattern and regex together with MODALIZER-SDK DICOM library and and PowerShell scripting the JPEG files are converted to DICOM and sent to the PACS.
The process is usually triggered using a task scheduler repeatedly. Errors are recorded in the system event viewer where they can trigger events, for example to alert operators.
