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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). | |
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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 | |
39 JavaScript frameworks (such as Meteor, AngularJS, Ember.js...). | |
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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 | |
43 funding for this development). In the meantime, you can also contact a | |
44 company that provides **commercial support on the top of Orthanc** and | |
45 that might have developed an advanced user interface. Currently, | |
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46 `Osimis <https://www.osimis.io/>`_ is the only company ensuring such |
0 | 47 corporate services, but others might show up in the future. A `contact |
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48 form <https://www.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-pro.php>`_ is available |
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49 on the official Web page of Orthanc. |
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51 **Note:** In 2017-2018, a team of Master students from `ULiège |
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52 <https://www.uliege.be/>`__ has done some work about creating a |
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53 revamped version of Orthanc Explorer. Check out the `related |
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54 discussion |
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55 <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/oOyKTmfs-J0/B6eyBJcvCAAJ>`__ |
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56 on the Orthanc Users forum. |