Step 3 — Review and Visualise Uploaded Data
After successful upload (data encrypted in AWS S3 bucket), the user navigates to the selected Archive in the platform.
Uploaded items appear in the Archive Items list.
- Clicking the eye icon (preview) on any item opens the integrated CurateMe DICOM Viewer.
Inside the viewer, users can:
- Browse series and individual slices
- Adjust window/level, zoom, pan
- Use measurement tools
- View anonymized DICOM header metadata (for verification)
- Access linked clinical data (if uploaded)
This step allows institutes and authorised reviewers to verify data quality, completeness, and correct anonymization before further analysis or AI processing.
Critical Privacy Guarantee: Identifiable patient data never leaves the institute until it is fully anonymized and explicitly selected for upload. All subsequent viewing occurs on anonymized data only.
Anonymizer & Upload Interface
The anonymizer runs entirely in the web browser using JavaScript libraries (dcmjs, JSZip, SheetJS) to anonymize DICOM files inside the browser. The user selects a folder, and the tool reads the files and removes or replaces patient information. Anonymized files are saved to a new folder with '_anonymized' added to the name.
No data is sent to the server during the anonymization phase, and no patient information leaves the user’s computer until explicitly uploaded in Step 2. The browser-based anonymizer does not persist temporary files, caches, or intermediate datasets beyond the user-selected destination folder.
The interface is divided into two distinct panels that correspond to the two phases of the workflow.