Translate text in Structured Reports

Replace the text of Structured Report content items with a translation you supply.

Problem

A DICOM Structured Report (SR) contains clinical findings in a non-English language or uses outdated terminology. You need to replace the text of the SR nodes with your own translation without altering the SR structure, relationship types, or coded concept mappings.

dcmage does not translate text. You type the translated text yourself; dcmage writes it into the content item.

Steps

1. Open the SR DICOM file — click Open files… (⌘O) and load a Structured Report file (e.g. sr-test.dcm).
2. Open the SR panel — click the SR tab in the right rail. The SR tree displays the hierarchical content structure.
3. Locate the text node — navigate the SR tree to find the node containing the text to translate. Nodes are organized by concept name (e.g. “Finding”, “Conclusion”).
4. Edit the text. Click Edit on the node. For a TEXT item this edits Text Value (0040,A160); for a CODE item it edits the Code Meaning (0008,0104) of its Concept Code Sequence. Enter your translated text. Concept names are not editable here, and the SR structure (CONTAINER, CODE, NUM relationships) remains unchanged.
5. Save. Press Enter or click ✓. The underlying tag row turns gold in the metadata tree.
6. Verify — expand the SR tree and confirm the translated text appears in the correct node. The concept name code and relationship type (e.g. CONTAINS) are preserved.

Result

The text you entered lands in the right SR node while the CONTAINER/CODE/NUM hierarchy, relationship types, concept names, and code values with their coding schemes are unchanged. On a CODE item only the Code Meaning text changes. Modified nodes turn gold, bump the dirty counter, and are individually undoable.