Orthanc - A lightweight, restful DICOM server for healthcare and medical research

Author

Jodogne, S. ; Bernard, Christian ; Devillers, M. ; Lenaerts, E. ; Coucke, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med. Phys., Univ. Hosp. of Li`ege, Li`ege, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

7-11 April 2013

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

193

Abstract

Is this paper, the Orthanc open-source software is introduced. Orthanc is a lightweight, yet powerful standalone DICOM store for healthcare and medical research. Multiple instances of Orthanc can easily be deployed in the hospital network or even in the same computer, which simplifies the interconnection between the DICOM modalities and the data management of medical images. Orthanc is unique with respect to the fact that it provides a modern RESTful API: Orthanc can be driven from any computer language to automate clinical processes. Finally, Orthanc comes bundled with an embedded Web interface that allows the end-users to browse and interact with the content of the DICOM store.

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; embedded systems; graphical user interfaces; health care; medical computing; public domain software; DICOM modalities; DICOM server; DICOM store; Orthanc open-source software; RESTful API; RESTful Application Programming Interface; data management; embedded Web interface; healthcare; medical images; medical research; Computers; DICOM; Hospitals; Protocols; Servers; Software; DICOM Store; REST; Scripting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1945-7928

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6456-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556444

Filename

6556444