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The Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging

Author: Sébastien Jodogne

Published in: Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine | Issue 3/2018

Abstract

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.

In general, proposing Web interfaces instead of heavyweight client applications is important for hospital setups, as the installation of third-party software is often prevented for security, licensing, and maintenance reasons.

Note that the Orthanc server implements disk space recycling: The oldest series of images can be automatically deleted when the disk usage becomes higher than a predefined threshold, which is very handy to deploy such transient DICOM buffers.

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Title: The Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging
Author: Sébastien Jodogne
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 2948-2925
Electronic ISSN: 2948-2933
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y

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