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author | Alain Mazy <am@orthanc.team> |
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date | Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:23:08 +0100 |
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.. _improving-interface: Orthanc Explorer is not user-friendly enough for my use ======================================================= Orthanc is designed as a lightweight service for medical imaging, where the word *service* must be understood in the sense of `service-oriented architectures <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture>`__. As a consequence, Orthanc is conceived as a robust back-end server (command-line) that aims to provide the most simple and generic support of DICOM. To state it differently, **the primary focus of the Orthanc project is not on the user interface**. However, Orthanc comes out-of-the-box with :ref:`Orthanc Explorer <orthanc-explorer>`, its default Web user interface. **Orthanc Explorer is designed for development, low-level purpose.** It is also used by the development team to test the features of Orthanc as they get introduced in the REST API. Orthanc Explorer is mainly targeted towards an English-speaking technical audience (notably system/network engineers, `PACS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system>`__ managers, medical physicists, and researchers). **Non-technical audience** (physicists, patients, administrative staff...) **shall have a look at** :ref:`Orthanc Explorer 2 <orthanc-explorer-2>` **plugin** that provides a more friendly user interface including: - translations - modification and tunable anonymization - configurable interface Once integrated with the `orthanc-auth-service <https://github.com/orthanc-team/orthanc-auth-service>`__ companion web service, Orthanc Explorer 2 also offers: - user permissions - web diffusion to patients/physicians Finally, you may also have a look to the following **related projects**: * In 2017-2018, a team of Master students from `ULiège <https://www.uliege.be/>`__ has done some work about creating a revamped version of Orthanc Explorer. Check out the `related discussion <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/oOyKTmfs-J0/B6eyBJcvCAAJ>`__ on the Orthanc Users forum. * `Orthanc Tools <https://github.com/salimkanoun/Orthanc_Tools>`__, a desktop Java interface around the REST API of Orthanc by Salim Kanoun. Orthanc Tools was notably showcased during `OrthancCon 2019 <https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=conference-schedule>`__. * `OrthancToolsJS <https://github.com/salimkanoun/Orthanc-Tools-JS>`__ is the successor of the now-deprecated Orthanc Tools. This Web interface was also created by Salim Kanoun. For more information, including link to a demo server, `check out the announcement <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orthanc-users/L1BqXbD900E/CB8wOnQ_AwAJ>`__ on the discussion group. * The `Orthanc Manager <https://github.com/id-05/OrthancManager>`__ Android application. `Check out the announcement <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orthanc-users/ToG4kbhK4Ss/CdFaexyvBwAJ>`__ on the discussion group. * `Elessar Theme for Orthanc <https://github.com/Terabuck/Elessar>`__ by Ludwig Moreno. This PHP project notably provide a green and dark grey theme, and translation in 14 languages. `Check out the full announcement <https://groups.google.com/g/orthanc-users/c/Kkxqx6ZW2yw/m/dFbTuHZHCQAJ>`__ on the discussion group. * `Menba <https://github.com/fidelio33b/menba>`__ is a Web interface built on the top of the REST API of Orthanc. It is written using `Django <https://www.djangoproject.com/>`__ and `Bootstrap <https://getbootstrap.com/>`__, and takes advantage of `Celery <https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/stable/getting-started/introduction.html>`__ and `AMQP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Protocol>`__ to handle the asynchronous tasks.