Store DICOM healthcare data with the Google Cloud console

Store DICOM healthcare data with the Google Cloud console

This page shows you how to use the Cloud Healthcare API and Google Cloud console to complete the following tasks:

1. Create a Cloud Healthcare API dataset.
2. Create a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) store inside the dataset.
3. Store a DICOM instance in the DICOM store.
4. Clean up to avoid billing charges.

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To follow step-by-step guidance for this task directly in the Google Cloud console, click Guide me:

Guide me

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Before you begin

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

4. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

6. Enable the Cloud Healthcare API.

   Enable the API

Create a dataset

Datasets contain data stores, and data stores contain healthcare data. To use the Cloud Healthcare API, you must create at least one dataset.

1. In the Google Cloud console, click Healthcare to go to the Datasets page.

   Go to Browser

2. Click Create dataset.

3. In the Name field, enter my-dataset.

4. In the Region field, select us-central1, and then click Create.

The new dataset appears in the list of datasets in the browser.

Store a DICOM instance

This section shows how to complete the following tasks:

1. Create a DICOM store.
2. Import a DICOM instance into the DICOM store.

The Cloud Healthcare API implements the DICOMweb standard to store and access medical imaging data. The Google Cloud console does not support DICOMweb transactions, such as viewing or retrieving instances.

Create a DICOM store

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Healthcare API Browser page:

   Go to Browser

1. Click the my-dataset dataset.

2. Click Create data store.

3. In the Type menu, select DICOM.

4. In the ID field, enter my-dicom-store.

5. Click Create.

The my-dicom-store DICOM store displays in the Data stores page in the my-dataset dataset.

Import a DICOM instance

Sample DICOM data is available in the gs://gcs-public-data--healthcare-nih-chest-xray Cloud Storage bucket.

1. In the list of data stores in your dataset, find the my-dicom-store DICOM store, and then select the Actions menu.

2. Select Import.

3. In the Import to DICOM store page, select the Advanced options menu, and then select Override Cloud Storage path.

4. In the Location field under the Advanced options menu, enter the following location of the DICOM instance you are importing:

   gs://gcs-public-data--healthcare-nih-chest-xray/dicom/00000001_000.dcm
   

5. Click Import.

6. To track the status of the import, click the Operations tab.

   If you encounter any errors, click Actions, and then click View details in Cloud Logging.

Now that you've stored a DICOM instance in the Cloud Healthcare API, clean up the resources you created in this quickstart, or continue to What's next for information on next steps, such as how to search for or retrieve DICOM images.

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used on this page, follow these steps.

If you no longer need the dataset and DICOM store created in this quickstart, you can delete the dataset. Deleting a dataset permanently deletes the dataset and any DICOM stores it contains.

To delete a dataset, complete the following steps:

1. Click Browser to go to the Datasets page.
2. Click Actions next to the dataset, and then click Delete.
3. Confirm your deletion.

Or you can delete the project that you created.

What's next

Continue to the DICOM guide to read topics such as the following:

• Creating and managing DICOM stores
• Connecting a PACS to the Cloud Healthcare API
• Using the DICOMweb standard
• Importing and exporting DICOM data using Cloud Storage

See the DICOM conformance statement for information on how the Cloud Healthcare API implements the DICOMweb standard.