code: def organize_dir(orig_dir):
      '''scans through the given directory and organizes DICOMs that look similar into subdirectories
      output directory is the ``orig_dir`` with ``-sorted`` appended to the end'''
      tags = [
          (0x10,0x20),
          (0x8,0x21),
          (0x8,0x31),
          (0x8,0x103e)
      ]
      orig_dir = orig_dir.rstrip('/')
      files = scan_dir(orig_dir,tags=tags,md5_hash=True)
      dups = find_dups(files)
      for dup in dups:
          nl.notify('Found duplicates of %s...' % dup[0])
          for each_dup in dup[1:]:
              nl.notify('\tdeleting %s' % each_dup)
              try:
                  os.remove(each_dup)
              except IOError:
                  nl.notify('\t[failed]')
              del(files[each_dup])
      clustered = cluster_files(files)
      output_dir = '%s-sorted' % orig_dir
      for key in clustered:
          if (0x8,0x31) in clustered[key]['info']:
              clustered[key]['info'][(0x8,0x31)] = str(int(float(clustered[key]['info'][(0x8,0x31)])))
          for t in tags:
              if t not in clustered[key]['info']:
                  clustered[key]['info'][t] = '_'
          run_name = '-'.join([scrub_fname(str(clustered[key]['info'][x])) for x in tags])+'-%d_images' %len(clustered[key]['files'])
          run_dir = os.path.join(output_dir,run_name)
          nl.notify('Moving files into %s' % run_dir)
          try:
              if not os.path.exists(run_dir):
                  os.makedirs(run_dir)
          except IOError:
              nl.notify('Error: failed to create directory %s' % run_dir)
          else:
              for f in clustered[key]['files']:
                  try:
                      dset_fname = os.path.split(f)[1]
                      if dset_fname[0]=='.':
                          dset_fname = '_' + dset_fname[1:]
                      os.rename(f,os.path.join(run_dir,dset_fname))
                  except (IOError, OSError):
                      pass
      for r,ds,fs in os.walk(output_dir,topdown=False):
          for d in ds:
              dname = os.path.join(r,d)
              if len(os.listdir(dname))==0:
                  os.remove(dname)