ImportError: cannot import name 'clean_pixel_data' from 'deid.dicom.pixels'

[NirutaDhimal]

I am trying to import clean_pixel_data from deid.dicom.pixels but I got the importError.
And a quick question, Is it better to use DicomCleaner or clean_pixel_data while implementing multithreading?

[vsoch]

What exactly is the error? I cannot reproduce.

[NirutaDhimal]

Its an ImportError: cannot import name 'clean_pixel_data' from 'deid.dicom.pixels'

[vsoch]

okay - so look in the content of deid/dicom/pixels/__init__.py what is there?

[vsoch]

I'm wondering if it's about your install or environment, because here is the import for me:

[NirutaDhimal]

This is the content of init.py. It doesn't have clean_pixel_data.

[vsoch]

Why is the function deleted? Look at the master branch it should be there.

https://github.com/pydicom/deid/blob/master/deid/dicom/pixels/__init__.py

[NirutaDhimal]

I don't know why it is deleted. I haven't touched it. I installed deid 0.2.33 version using pip. I added the clean_pixel_data in the init file.

But I got another error

I think clean_pixel_data function is not present in clean.py file
I will try to run it again after I reinstall the module.

[NirutaDhimal]

Hi @vsoch Its working after I installed deid module of version 0.2.37. Thanks for helping me again. I really appreciated it :)

[vsoch]

Sure thing! If you get an error like this in the future, a good way to debug is to sanity check things - e.g., if it's telling you that you can't import something, look there to see if the function name exists (as we did). And then compare your version against the latest in version control, or if it were something else (e.g, let's say you were running things with multiprocessing) you could try the same commands in a more vanilla environment. Glad to help!