Pinnacle Export Tool

Export DICOM objects from raw Pinnacle data.

Warning

The DICOM objects exported by this tool are not the same as the DICOM objects exported from within the Pinnacle application. Certain DICOM modalities correspond fairly well to the Pinnacle exported objects for some versions of Pinnacle. Others are not working as expected or have not been validated.

The first step when using this tool is to compare the output generated to the ‘ground truth’ generated by your version(s) of Pinnacle. You can then determine if this tool currently meets your export needs, or if some adjustments need to be made. Please create an issue on the PyMedPhys GitHub describing the circumstances where the tool is not working, providing some sample raw Pinnacle data where possible. If you’re up for a challenge, clone the PyMedPhys repository and attempt to solve the problem yourself! Don’t be afraid to ask for help when contributing your changes. The more developers we can encourage to contribute to this tool, the sooner it will become stable and reliable.

Finally, note that while this tool can be extremely useful for exporting large amounts of Pinnacle data to DICOM, we recommend that this should only be used for research purposes and not clinically.

usage: pymedphys pinnacle [-h] {export} ...

Positional Arguments

pinnacle

Possible choices: export

Sub-commands

export

Export a raw file to DICOM

pymedphys pinnacle export [-h] [-o OUTPUT_DIRECTORY] [-v] [--mrn] [-l]
                          [-m MODALITY] [-p PLAN] [-t TRIAL] [-i IMAGE]
                          [-u UID_PREFIX] [-r ROISKIP]
                          input_path

Positional Arguments

input_path

Root Patient directory of raw Pinnacle data (directory containing the ‘Patient’ file). Alternatively a TAR archive can be supplied.

Named Arguments

-o, --output-directory

Directory in which to generate DICOM objects.

-v, --verbose

Flag to output debug information.

Default: False

--mrn

Append the Patient ID/MRN to the end of the name of the export folder

Default: False

-l, --list

List all plans and trials available.

Default: False

-m, --modality

Modalities to export (CT exports the plans primary planning CT).

Default: []

-p, --plan

The name of the plan to export (first plan will be exported by default).

-t, --trial

The name of the trial to export (first trial will be exported by default).

-i, --image

The UID of an image series you would like to export (or ‘all’ to export all images).

-u, --uid-prefix

Prefix to use for generated UIDs.

-r, --roiskip

Regular expression defining which ROIs to skip. Note that you will probably need to enclose your regular expression in single-quotes. For example ‘Skin|.*_obj|RadCalc’ .