anonymize_volume: Anonymize volume objects.

In barefootbiology/heyexr: Import, Transform and Visualize Optical Coherence Tomography Volumes in R

Anonymize volume objects.

Description

anonymize_volume updates the patient ID, date of birth, and date fields specified in Heidelberg's HSF-OCT-101 file format specification. NOTE: This function will not catch identifying data if it is included in the 'spare' bytes or other fields in the volume object. We strongly recommend that you inspect your own VOL files for other potentially identifying fields not documented in HSF-OCT-101.

Usage

anonymize_volume(
  volume,
  pid,
  patient_id = pid,
  anon_dob = as.POSIXct(0, origin = "1899-12-30", tz = "UTC")
)

Arguments

volume	A volume object
anon_dob	The new date of birth. Defaults to the origin in Microsoft's DATE specification as used by the 'dob' and 'visit_date' values in the Heidelberg VOL file specification (HSF-OCT-101).
anon_pid	A new internal patient ID.
anon_patient_id	A new patient ID.

Value

A new volume object with the identifiers and dates adjusted.

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