Annotate DICOM images and build an ML model using the MONAI framework on Amazon SageMaker

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is an image format that contains visualizations of X-Rays and MRIs as well as any associated metadata. DICOM is the standard for medical professionals and healthcare researchers for visualizing and interpreting X-Rays and MRIs. For this post, we use a chest X-Ray DICOM images dataset from the MIMIC Chest X-Ray (MIMIC-CXR) Database, a publicly available database of chest X-Ray images in DICOM format and the associated radiology reports as free text files. To access the files, you must be a registered user and sign the data use agreement. We label the images through the Ground Truth private workforce.