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| author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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| date | Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:03:10 +0100 |
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| 0 | 3 Orthanc Explorer is not user-friendly enough for my use |
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| 6 Orthanc is designed as a lightweight service for medical imaging, | |
| 7 where the word *service* must be understood in the sense of | |
| 8 `service-oriented architectures | |
| 9 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture>`__. As | |
| 10 a consequence, Orthanc is conceived as a robust back-end server | |
| 11 (command-line) that aims to provide the most simple and generic | |
| 12 support of DICOM. To state it differently, **the primary focus of the | |
| 13 Orthanc project is not on the user interface**. | |
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| 15 However, Orthanc comes out-of-the-box with :ref:`Orthanc Explorer | |
| 16 <orthanc-explorer>`, its default Web user interface. **Orthanc | |
| 433 | 17 Explorer is designed for development, low-level purpose.** It is |
| 0 | 18 also used by the development team to test the features of Orthanc as |
| 19 they get introduced in the REST API. Orthanc Explorer is mainly | |
| 68 | 20 targeted towards an English-speaking technical audience (notably |
| 21 system/network engineers, `PACS | |
| 0 | 22 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system>`__ |
| 23 managers, medical physicists, and researchers). | |
| 24 | |
| 25 **Non-technical audience** (physicists, patients, administrative | |
| 26 staff...) **might expect an user interface that is more user-friendly | |
| 27 than Orthanc Explorer**, and/or that integrates more features (such as | |
| 68 | 28 language translations, sorting resources, access control lists, |
| 29 tagging images, beautiful layout, tunable anonymization, modification | |
| 134 | 30 of instances, paging if many patients, handling of timeouts, |
| 281 | 31 login/logout, Web diffusion to patients/physicians...). If you need |
| 32 such a more advanced `user experience | |
| 0 | 33 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience>`__ so that Orthanc |
| 34 better fits your clinical workflow, you will have to develop a | |
| 35 separate, custom Web interface on the top of the :ref:`rest`, maybe as | |
| 36 a `plugin | |
| 37 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/tree/master/Plugins>`__. Any | |
| 38 front-end Web developer could take care of this task using well-known | |
| 456 | 39 JavaScript frameworks (such as Angular, Vue.js...). |
| 0 | 40 |
| 41 It is possible that an official plugin that provides a more advanced | |
| 42 user interface will be developed in the future (provided we find | |
| 456 | 43 funding for this development). In the meantime, you can also contact |
| 44 **Osimis**, the commercial partner of the Orthanc project, by using | |
| 45 the `contact form <https://www.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-pro.php>`_ | |
| 46 that is available on the official Web page of Orthanc. | |
| 47 | |
| 48 Finally, have a look to the following **related projects**: | |
| 117 | 49 |
| 456 | 50 * In 2017-2018, a team of Master students from `ULiège |
| 51 <https://www.uliege.be/>`__ has done some work about creating a | |
| 52 revamped version of Orthanc Explorer. Check out the `related | |
| 53 discussion | |
| 54 <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/oOyKTmfs-J0/B6eyBJcvCAAJ>`__ | |
| 55 on the Orthanc Users forum. | |
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57 * `Orthanc Tools <https://github.com/salimkanoun/Orthanc_Tools>`__, a |
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58 desktop Java interface around the REST API of Orthanc by Salim |
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59 Kanoun. Orthanc Tools was notably showcased during `OrthancCon 2019 |
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60 <https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=conference-schedule>`__. |
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62 * `OrthancToolsJS <https://github.com/salimkanoun/Orthanc-Tools-JS>`__ |
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63 is the successor of the now-deprecated Orthanc Tools. This Web |
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64 interface was also created by Salim Kanoun. For more information, |
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65 including link to a demo server, `check out the announcement |
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66 <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orthanc-users/L1BqXbD900E/CB8wOnQ_AwAJ>`__ |
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67 on the discussion group. |
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| 69 * The `Orthanc Manager <https://github.com/id-05/OrthancManager>`__ | |
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| 510 | 74 * `Elessar Theme for Orthanc <https://github.com/Terabuck/Elessar>`__ |
| 75 by Ludwig Moreno. This PHP project notably provide a green and dark | |
| 76 grey theme, and translation in 14 languages. `Check out the full | |
| 77 announcement | |
| 78 <https://groups.google.com/g/orthanc-users/c/Kkxqx6ZW2yw/m/dFbTuHZHCQAJ>`__ | |
| 79 on the discussion group. | |
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| 477 | 81 * Last but not least, as written above, please consider buying the |
| 82 `professional development services by Osimis | |
| 83 <https://www.osimis.io/en/services.html>`__. Osimis can help medical | |
| 478 | 84 and hospital audience with the deployment of a **certified, |
| 85 integrated clinical environment** around Orthanc. In turn, the money | |
| 86 you pay will contribute to make the Orthanc project sustainable in | |
| 87 the long term. |