A DICOM viewer based on web technology

During the last decade, medical imaging services have assumed a central role in healthcare institutions, and they are nowadays a decisive factor for the quality of diagnostic and treatments. Health stakeholders and policy makers have been steadily adopting PACS and DICOM standard, simplifying interoperability between distinct equipment and institutions. To assist images´ interpretation, several visualization solutions emerged. However, these applications are targeted to specific operating systems, hindering its ubiquitous use, in increasing Web-based working environments. In this paper we present a Web-based DICOM viewer that was entirely developed with web technology, namely HTML5 and JavaScript. The result is a visualization station that is already in use in two medical imaging centres and that can be accessed through a common Web browser, from any computer, mobile device, or operation system.