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| author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:39:03 +0200 |
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| 0 | 1 Stone of Orthanc |
| 2 ================ | |
| 3 | |
| 4 General Information | |
| 5 ------------------- | |
| 6 | |
| 1590 | 7 This repository contains the source code of Stone of Orthanc. |
| 0 | 8 |
| 9 Stone of Orthanc is a lightweight, cross-platform C++ framework for | |
| 1590 | 10 the rendering of medical images. It is a companion toolkit to the main |
| 11 Orthanc DICOM server. It notably features support for MPR (multiplanar | |
| 12 reconstruction of volume images), PET-CT fusion, and accurate physical | |
| 13 world coordinates. | |
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| 1590 | 15 Stone of Orthanc can take advantage of OpenGL/WebGL to accelerate 2D |
| 16 rendering using the GPU. 3D operations such as reslicing are done | |
| 17 using CPU. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 Stone of Orthanc is compatible with any GUI framework (such as Qt, | |
| 20 wxWidgets, MFC...). The provided sample applications use the SDL | |
| 21 framework. | |
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| 1590 | 23 Very importantly, Stone of Orthanc is compatible with WebAssembly, |
| 24 which makes it suitable to render medical images in Web applications. | |
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| 1590 | 26 As a library for medical imaging, Stone of Orthanc also comes with |
| 27 primitives to download, parse and handle DICOM images. These | |
| 28 primitives can use either the REST API of the Orthanc server, or the | |
| 29 DICOMweb protocol. Primitives to deal with radiotherapy or nuclear | |
| 30 medicine studies are available as well (image fusion using layers). | |
| 31 | |
| 32 Besides the low-level Stone of Orthanc library, this repository also | |
| 33 contains the Stone Web viewer. The Stone Web viewer is a | |
| 34 fully-featured Web viewer that can be either used as a plugin to | |
| 35 Orthanc, or as a standalone viewer if using DICOMweb. | |
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| 37 | |
| 38 Comparison | |
| 39 ---------- | |
| 40 | |
| 41 Stone of Orthanc is quite similar to two other well-known toolkits: | |
| 42 | |
| 43 * Cornerstone, a client-side JavaScript toolkit to display medical | |
| 44 images in Web browsers, by Chris Hafey <chafey@gmail.com>: | |
| 45 https://github.com/chafey/cornerstone | |
| 46 | |
| 1590 | 47 Contrarily to Cornerstone, Stone of Orthanc is written in C++ and |
| 48 can be embedded into native, heavyweight applications. | |
| 0 | 49 |
| 50 * VTK, a C++ toolkit for scientific visualization, by Kitware: | |
| 51 http://www.vtk.org/ | |
| 52 | |
| 1590 | 53 Contrarily to VTK, Stone of Orthanc is much more simple, and only |
| 54 uses the GPU for 2D rendering. | |
| 0 | 55 |
| 56 | |
| 57 Dependencies | |
| 58 ------------ | |
| 59 | |
| 60 Stone of Orthanc is based upon the following projects: | |
| 61 | |
| 62 * Orthanc, a lightweight Vendor Neutral Archive (DICOM server): | |
| 63 http://www.orthanc-server.com/ | |
| 64 | |
| 65 * Cairo and pixman, a cross-platform 2D graphics library: | |
| 66 https://www.cairographics.org/ | |
| 67 | |
| 68 * Optionally, SDL, a cross-platform multimedia library: | |
| 69 https://www.libsdl.org/ | |
| 70 | |
| 1590 | 71 On Ubuntu, you would use: |
| 0 | 72 |
| 1590 | 73 $ sudo apt-get install -y libcairo-dev libpixman-1-dev libsdl2-dev |
| 74 | |
| 75 * Optionally, Emscripten, the official compiler for WebAssembly: | |
| 76 https://emscripten.org/ | |
| 445 | 77 |
| 0 | 78 |
| 1590 | 79 Installation and usage |
| 80 ---------------------- | |
| 0 | 81 |
| 1590 | 82 Build instructions and usage details are available as part of the |
| 83 Orthanc Book: | |
| 41 | 84 http://book.orthanc-server.com/developers/stone.html |
| 85 | |
| 0 | 86 Stone of Orthanc comes with several sample applications in the |
| 1590 | 87 "Applications/Samples" folder. Please check the |
| 88 "Applications/Samples/README.md" file for information on the samples | |
| 89 building and running procedure. | |
| 90 | |
| 91 The source code of the Stone Web viewer is located in folder | |
| 92 "Applications/StoneWebViewer". | |
| 93 | |
| 94 | |
| 95 Technical information | |
| 96 --------------------- | |
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| 1590 | 98 - For situations where OpenGL is not available, Stone of Orthanc comes |
| 99 bundled with its own software-based rendering engine (based upon | |
| 100 cairo and pixman). This engine will use CPU hardware acceleration if | |
| 101 available (notably SSE2, SSSE3, and NEON instruction sets), but not | |
| 102 the GPU. This makes Stone a highly versatile framework that can run | |
| 103 even on low-performance platforms. | |
| 104 | |
| 105 - Stone of Orthanc is compatible with desktop software, with native | |
| 106 mobile apps and with Web applications. To achieve this | |
| 107 compatibility, the rendering loop of Stone of Orthanc is | |
| 108 single-threaded, and abstracts network transfers and other | |
| 109 asynchronous events thanks to a so-called "Oracle". The Oracle is | |
| 110 the place where architecture-specific operations/computations can | |
| 111 take place (for instance, multi-threading). | |
| 445 | 112 |
| 265 | 113 |
| 0 | 114 Licensing |
| 115 --------- | |
| 116 | |
| 1590 | 117 Stone of Orthanc is licensed under the AGPLv3+ license. |
| 0 | 118 |
| 1590 | 119 We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make use |
| 120 of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications. | |
| 121 Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make use | |
| 122 of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work using the | |
| 123 following BibTeX entry: | |
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| 210 | 125 @Article{Jodogne2018, |
| 126 author="Jodogne, S{\'e}bastien", | |
| 127 title="The {O}rthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging", | |
| 128 journal="Journal of Digital Imaging", | |
| 129 year="2018", | |
| 211 | 130 month="Jun", |
| 131 day="01", | |
| 132 volume="31", | |
| 133 number="3", | |
| 134 pages="341--352", | |
| 210 | 135 issn="1618-727X", |
| 136 doi="10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y", | |
| 137 url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y" | |
| 0 | 138 } |
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