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Meeting Notes by Year

2021 MIDI Task Group Meeting Notes

2022 MIDI Task Group Meeting Notes

Meeting date: July 20, 2021

WebEx recording of 7/20/2021 meeting

• Introduction: Medical Image De-Identification Initiative (MIDI)
• Task Group goals
• Steering Committee
• Timeline
• Discussion

Meeting date: August 10, 2021

WebEx recording of 8/10/2021 meeting

• Instructions to access the MIDI Task Group wiki page
• Accept Mendeley invitation to access private group for literature review/annotated bibliography
• Outline of approach
  • metadata vs. pixel data
  • metadata
  • structured (strongly typed) vs. text
  • pixel data
  • burned-in text ("printed" and hand-written)
  • identifiable features (e.g., faces, iris, retina)
  • with or without "public" data to compare with
• Challenging topics
  • evaluation of success of de-identification
  • quantitative comparison of performance
  • quantifying re-identification risk
  • creating test data sets
  • faces (etc.) reconstructed from cross-sections
  • burned-in text - detection, removal, cleaning
  • cleaning text descriptors (metadata or burned in)
  • buried metadata (e.g., EXIF, geotags in JPEG inside DICOM)
  • dates (incl. preserving temporal relationships)
  • pseudonym consistency across separate submissions
  • risks of hashing to create pseudonymous identifiers
  • uniqueness of images limits statistical approaches
  • loss allowable during de-identification (e.g., age fuzzing, pixels)
  • private data element preservation to retain utility
  • ultrasound - still frames and cine loops, lossy compressed
  • photographs
  • video
  • gross pathology and whole slide images (incl. labels)
  • IRB/ethics committee messaging wrt. de-identification decisions
  • IT security approval/audits of de-identification
  • regulatory requirements: HIPAA Privacy Rule, GDPR, CCPA, others?
  • sufficiency of standards, e.g., DICOM PS3.15 Annex E
  • risk of not following a standard (home-grown decisions)
  • threat of image "signatures", private set intersection methods
  • policy versus the technical details of recompression/decompression artifacts for JPEG
  • data minimization
• Inventory of tools
  • user interface vs. scripted (bulk, service)
  • configurable - user vs. installer vs. hard-coded
  • platform, language
  • open source, free, commercial, service
  • on-site vs. outside (e.g., [IP]II needs to leave walls for AI on cloud)
• Roadmap and deliverables
  • interim report
    • full report
    • "primer" on medical image de-identification for newbies/execs
    • confirm what is out of scope (non-goals) - consent, data use agreements, ...
• Tasking: Members will think about which task they would like to contribute to.

Meeting date: September 14, 2021

WebEx recording of 9/14/2021 meeting

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