diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9179d8e..4a63009 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install \
 
 # Install scitran.data dependencies
 RUN pip install \
-  pydicom \
+  dicom \
   python-dateutil==2.6.0 \
   pytz==2017.2 \
   tzlocal==1.4 \
diff --git a/dicom-mr-classifier.py b/dicom-mr-classifier.py
index 4004cd7..32bb346 100755
--- a/dicom-mr-classifier.py
+++ b/dicom-mr-classifier.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 import zipfile
 import datetime
 import argparse
-import pydicom as dicom
+import dicom
 from pprint import pprint
 from fnmatch import fnmatch
 import classification_from_label
@@ -156,9 +156,12 @@ def assign_type(s):
         return format_string(s)
     if type(s) == list or type(s) == dicom.multival.MultiValue:
         try:
-            return [ float(x) for x in s if x.is_integer() == False ]
+            return [ float(x) for x in s ]
         except ValueError:
-            return [ format_string(x) for x in s if len(x) > 0 ]
+            try:
+                return [ int(x) for x in s ]
+            except ValueError:
+                return [ format_string(x) for x in s if len(x) > 0 ]
     elif type(s) == float or type(s) == int:
         return s
     else:
@@ -172,6 +175,7 @@ def assign_type(s):
                 return format_string(s)
 
 
+
 def format_string(in_string):
     """
     Remove non-ascii characters to make sure the values will display properly