Adding tag groups for values and fields

[vsoch]

Description

Related issues: #115

This is the start of work to add the definition of values and fields list to the deid recipe. So far I've:

• added the functionality to parse a configuration including them
• added a check for a values or fields prefix to define a field group. The "group.py" file is added to the deid.dicom module to provide functions to drive extractions of fields or values lists. The function to extract fields based on values is added to fields.py
• added basic documentation about the sections to docs (will need feedback about what needs more when I'm finished)

I haven't tested the second bullet above, and likely will tweak the work based on that.

I still need to:

• update / write tests for the updated configuration
• test the deid.dicom-groups file for parsing of the fields and values
• write more docs for interaction with groups (values, fields)

I will try to work on this a little bit at a time - I'm opening a work in progress PR for now to indicate that this still needs work.

[vsoch]

This is in a good state and ready for review. @wetzelj I've finished adding the functionality that we discussed, along with some basic documentation. The best examples of interacting with get and replace identifiers are likely found in the test files. I wrote documentation for the sections, but didn't write a verbose user tutorial because I'm thinking that #119 will be hugely easier to use (and teach) as a wrapper around get and set, and where you can add functions, define the recipe, etc. So my suggestions for moving forward:

• finish the basic functionality here to add groups for "values" and "fields"
• in a separate PR, add the class for making it easy to interact with get and set
• What are your thoughts on #121 to refactor testing to be a bit cleaner?
• Once we have the class to make get/set easier, then I can write better tutorials around using it
• Then we can optimize the get and set functions, likely we can take advantage of the get/set client (maybe we should just call it DeidDicom? DicomParser?) to use it as a cache for functions, settings, etc.

Please take whatever time you need to discuss and review, I'm going to work on other things for the rest of the afternoon.

[vsoch]

@wetzelj let me know when you've been able to test and review, I have a lot of projects at once so I'm working on one feature at a time for deid (and the other projects too!). I think (based on the issues with setting/ getting values, and your comments with JITTER) we should work on that after this.

[vsoch]

And please no rush! I have a crapton of things to work on, as I suspect that you do too, and the current state of the world doesn't make that easier :P

[wetzelj]

Too many meetings today! :( I've started to look, but haven't been able to dig in yet. I'll have more dedicated time tomorrow.

[wetzelj]

FYI... There's another print() statement in deid\dicom\actions.py - line 54.

[vsoch]

okay, removed. I'm probably trying to do too many things at once :/

[wetzelj]

Regarding the plan forward... #118 is really one of the higher priority issues from our standpoint, but if you think that #119 should be done first, that's okay too.

One other item that I experienced when testing - but I'm not too sure where it should go... During our discussion on #112 (comment), you mentioned that: REMOVE ALL re:(\d{7,0}) fits into the current structure.

In testing, I found that this functionality isn't present yet... with this rule included in the recipe, we fall into the else - "re is invalid variable type for REMOVE."

Would you prefer that this be opened as a new issue or incorporated into one of the others?

[vsoch]

That's correct - it's not implemented but instead the REMOVE all func:<function> is supported. I could look into adding this next - it looks like we could use the same functions in dicom/filter.py so the supported actions would be:

REMOVE <field> contains:expression
REMOVE <field> notcontains:expression
REMOVE <field> equals:expression
REMOVE <field> missing
REMOVE <field> notequals:expression
REMOVE <field> present
REMOVE <field> empty

This PR is already quite large - would you be okay with merging this, releasing, and then I'll follow up with adding the REMOVE tags? Note that REMOVE ALL re: is equivalent to REMOVE ALL contains: it's just more non programmer friendly to understand contains over re.

[wetzelj]

That's perfectly fine with me.

[vsoch]

Awesome! I'll get this in asap, and I am going into 2 hours of calls but I'll try to be sneaking and really be programming at the same time :) I know these fixes are important to you, and I want to support that with maintaining a good sense of urgency to keep things moving!

[vsoch]

https://pypi.org/project/deid/0.1.4/

And conda usually shows up within a few hours. Starting on the additions to remove now (I'm so sneaky!!)