Preparing Acquisitions for Automated Classification

Introduction

This document details best practice for proper classification.

Instruction Steps

When new DICOM data are loaded into Flywheel, it is highly beneficial to automate the proper classification of the data. To efficiently accomplish this task, Flywheel provides a set of gears: File Metadata Importer, which extracts the DICOM header and saves it as Flywheel metadata, and File Classifier, which uses the saved metadata to classify the file.

For more details about classifying files in Flywheel, refer to Best Practices: File Metadata Importer and File Classifier.