Re: [Health-dev] [task #15167] Orthanc DICOM module

[Chris Zimmerman]

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On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 6:13 AM, Axel Braun <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Am 5. März 2019 22:26:22 GMT-03:00 schrieb Chris address@hidden:
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> > Hi!
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> > On Sunday, March 3, 2019 3:01 AM, Luis Falcon address@hidden wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:16:05 +0100
> > > Axel Braun address@hidden wrote:
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> > > > Am Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2019, 15:04:38 CET schrieb Luis Falcon:
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> > > > > Quick followup ...
> > > > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:54:29 +0000
> > > > > Luis Falcon address@hidden wrote:
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> > > > > > Hi Chris !
> > > > > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:58:22 +0000
> > > > > > Chris Zimmerman address@hidden wrote:
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> > > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > > > I think two things for testing:
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> > > > > > > -   Module actually works
> > > > > > > -   Smooth and intuitive workflow
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've been testing against the demo Orthanc server
> > > > > > > http://demo.orthanc-server.com and my own Orthanc docker
> > > > > > > instance. Real-world examples, of course, sometimes act
> > > > > > > differently. Also, needs to be an easy flow, so hopefully
> > > > > > > people can tell me what they like and dislike.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Great !!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > There is still the issue about DICOM viewers. That is, how to
> > > > > > > view the images. Orthanc ships with a dicom-viewer plugin
> > > > > > > that
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> > > > > > > works through its web interface but it is, admittedly, not a
> > > > > > > robustly sophisticated viewer. Furthermore, even setting up a
> > > > > > > dicom-viewer and dicom-server to work together is
> > > > > > > non-trivial.
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> > > > > > Yes. I think we should work on the link with a nice / simple
> > > > > > DICOM
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> > > > > > viewer.
> > > > > > I've been using Aliza lately
> > > > > > (https://www.aliza-dicom-viewer.com/), a QT application. It is
> > > > > > simple, has an RPM package and works quite well.
> > > > > > We can check with Sebastien who is an expert in this area and
> > > > > > get
> > >
> > > > > > his thoughts.
> > > > > > @Axel, do you think we can have the Aliza package for openSUSE
> > > > > > ?
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> > > > > Although it's linked with QT & licensed under LGPL, I have not
> > > > > seen
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> > > > > the source code from Aliza, so until that is clear we can not
> > > > > integrate it and should keep on the quest to find the ultimate
> > > > > Libre DICOM viewer :D
> > > >
> > > > I could not find any license for the aliza package - LGPL just
> > > > refers
> > >
> > > > to the linked QT libraries.
> > > > The guys are in Bonn (could have knocked their door yesterday ;-) I
> > > > will drop them a mail - or did you do already?
> > >
> > > That would be great ! My German is as good as my Chinese :D
> > >
> > > > For the rest, I have othanc-webviewer and othanc-dicomweb in the
> > > > build queue. I finished gdcm, which is a C++ library for DICOM
> > > > medical files, and a build requirement for the webviewer. Same as
> > > > cornerstone, a nodejs package, which waits to be build.
> > > > So, any lightweight package is welcome.....
> > >
> > > Aeskulap needs some work / update, but it isvery light and a great
> > > piece of software. We just need somebody to update the source code to
> > > the latest specs and maintain it. It could be a great companion and
> > > integrate it with GNU Health.
> >
> > It would be nice to have that developed again but I'm somewhat worried
> > about trying to restart a basically dead (10+ yr since last commit)
> > software project. Personally, I have no experience with C++. I tried
> > out Aliza, too, and have no complaints. I defer to others for the
> > viewer selection, but the simple viewer provided by orthanc seems too
> > basic.
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> You are refering to the webviewer plugin here?

Yes. Although needs vary of course - chest xray vs CT vs MRI, etc. There are 
other viewers, too. For example, OHIF Viewer https://github.com/OHIF/Viewers is 
built on the same DICOM js library as the webviewer plugin. There is easy 
integration as well (https://github.com/OHIF/Viewers/wiki/Orthanc-with-DIMSE). 
Keeping the options open seems reasonable. Good to see lots of open source 
software in the DICOM space.