The Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging

[en] This paper reviews the components of Orthanc, a free and open-source, highly versatile ecosystem for medical imaging. At the core of the Orthanc ecosystem, the Orthanc server is a lightweight vendor neutral archive that provides PACS managers with a powerful environment to automate and optimize the imaging flows that are very specific to each hospital. The Orthanc server can be extended with plugins that provide solutions for teleradiology, digital pathology, or enterprise-ready databases. It is shown how software developers and research engineers can easily develop external software or Web portals dealing with medical images, with minimal knowledge of the DICOM standard, thanks to the advanced programming interface of the Orthanc server. The paper concludes by introducing the Stone of Orthanc, an innovative toolkit for the cross-platform rendering of medical images.

Disciplines :

Radiology, nuclear medicine & imaging

Author, co-author :

Jodogne, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore)

Language :

English

Title :

The Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging

Publication date :

2018

Journal title :

Journal of Digital Imaging

ISSN :

0897-1889

eISSN :

1618-727X

Publisher :

W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, United States - Pennsylvania

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

341-352

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y

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since 04 May 2018

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