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author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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date | Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:00:15 +0200 |
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Stone of Orthanc ================ General Information ------------------- This repository contains the source code of the Stone of Orthanc. Stone of Orthanc is a lightweight, cross-platform C++ framework for the CPU-based rendering of medical images. It notably features support for MPR (multiplanar reconstruction of volume images), PET-CT fusion, and accurate physical world coordinates. Stone of Orthanc comes bundled with its own software-based rendering engine (based upon pixman). This engine will use CPU hardware acceleration if available (notably SSE2, SSSE3, and NEON instruction sets), but not the GPU. This makes Stone a highly versatile framework that can run even on low-performance platforms. Note that Stone is able to display DICOM series without having to entirely store them in the RAM (i.e. frame by frame). Thanks to its standalone rendering engine, Stone of Orthanc is also compatible with any GUI framework (such as Qt, wxWidgets, MFC...). The provided sample applications use the SDL framework. Stone is conceived as a companion toolbox to the Orthanc VNA (vendor neutral archive, i.e. DICOM server). As a consequence, Stone will smoothly interface with Orthanc out of the box. Interestingly, Stone does not contain any DICOM toolkit: It entirely relies on the REST API of Orthanc to parse/decode DICOM images. However, thanks to the object-oriented architecture of Stone, it is possible to avoid this dependency upon Orthanc, e.g. to download DICOM datasets using DICOMweb. Comparison ---------- Pay attention to the fact that Stone of Orthanc is a toolkit, and not a fully-featured application for the visualization of medical images (such as Horos/OsiriX or Ginkgo CADx). However, such applications could be built on the top of Stone of Orthanc. Stone of Orthanc is quite similar to two other well-known toolkits: * Cornerstone, a client-side JavaScript toolkit to display medical images in Web browsers, by Chris Hafey <chafey@gmail.com>: https://github.com/chafey/cornerstone Contrarily to Cornerstone, Stone of Orthanc can be embedded into native, heavyweight applications. * VTK, a C++ toolkit for scientific visualization, by Kitware: http://www.vtk.org/ Contrarily to VTK, Stone of Orthanc is focused on CPU-based, 2D rendering: The GPU will not be used. Dependencies ------------ Stone of Orthanc is based upon the following projects: * Orthanc, a lightweight Vendor Neutral Archive (DICOM server): http://www.orthanc-server.com/ * Cairo and pixman, a cross-platform 2D graphics library: https://www.cairographics.org/ * Optionally, SDL, a cross-platform multimedia library: https://www.libsdl.org/ Installation and usage ---------------------- Build instructions are similar to that of Orthanc: https://orthanc.chu.ulg.ac.be/book/faq/compiling.html Usage details are available as part of the Orthanc Book: http://book.orthanc-server.com/developers/stone.html Stone of Orthanc comes with several sample applications in the "Samples" folder. These samples use SDL. Licensing --------- Stone of Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL exception: http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications. Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work using the following BibTeX entry: @inproceedings{Jodogne:ISBI2013, author = {Jodogne, S. and Bernard, C. and Devillers, M. and Lenaerts, E. and Coucke, P.}, title = {Orthanc -- {A} Lightweight, {REST}ful {DICOM} Server for Healthcare and Medical Research}, booktitle={Biomedical Imaging ({ISBI}), {IEEE} 10th International Symposium on}, year={2013}, pages={190-193}, ISSN={1945-7928}, month=apr, url={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6556444}, address={San Francisco, {CA}, {USA}} }