Academic paper figures

Export de-identified images and metadata for academic publication.

Problem

You need to generate publication-quality figures from DICOM images for an academic paper. The images must be anonymized (no PHI overlays), window/level adjusted for optimal tissue contrast, and exported in a standard image format (PNG/TIFF/JPEG).

Steps

1. Open the DICOM file — click Open files… (⌘O).
2. Adjust window/level — use the WL tool or the mouse scroll wheel to set optimal tissue contrast for your figure.
3. Anonymize if needed — switch to Anon mode (⌘3 in the Mac app, ⌘⇧A in the browser) and apply PHI scrubbing. No profile removes text burned into the pixels. Cover it with redaction regions (see use case 1.4.2); only Apply & Export writes them to a file.
4. Bake the window/level — use Pixel operations… in the command palette (⌘K) to permanently apply the current WL to the pixel data.
5. Export as image — use the Export menu to convert the series to PNG/TIFF/JPEG. Choose a resolution appropriate for print or digital publication.
6. Verify — open the exported image and confirm no PHI text remains, contrast is publication-ready, and dimensions match the expected output size.

Result

The exported figure has its burned-in PHI removed and the window/level baked into the pixels, at the original frame size — lossless as PNG, or quality-adjustable as JPEG — ready to drop into a paper.