DICOM Watch will monitor a directory for tar archives. Any tar archives that appear within the watched directory are assumed to contain DICOM-formatted files that should be sent to a DICOM C-STORE Service Class Provider (DICOM SCP).

Installation

Just use pip

pip install git+https://github.com/harvard-nrg/dicomwatch.git

This software has been tested on macOS Sonoma (arm64) and Linux (amd64) using Python 3.11.

Usage

Note

This example assumes that scp.example.org is the target DICOM SCP with AE title ANY-SCP and listening on port 11112.

start.py --hostname scp.example.org --port 11112 --ae-title ANY-SCP --folder /location

How it works

This software uses watchdog to watch a directory for gzipped tar archives i.e., files ending in .tar.gz.

When a tar archive appears within the watched directory, the software will inspect the archive for any DICOM-formatted files and send those files to the specified DICOM SCP using pynetdicom.

Can I watch cloud storage?

The user supplied --folder can be any local directory. If you want to watch a directory that lives in the cloud, you should consider mounting your cloud storage using rclone mount.