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=== Orthanc Roadmap ===
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The wishlist from Orthanc users is available on Trello:
https://trello.com/b/gcn33tDM/orthanc-wishlist


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General
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* Configure an user-defined site UID root if generating DICOM UIDs
  ("FromDcmtkBridge::GenerateUuid()")
* Support "/preview" and "/matlab" for LUT color images
* Improve handling of errors in the command queue:
  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/--njEbqcDDI/rBu8XL-Mm-cJ
* Support partial file retrieval in Orthanc::HttpClient
* Support retry counter in Orthanc::HttpClient
* Option to enable DNS lookups in DICOM: https://goo.gl/woa35Z


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REST API
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Short-term
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* Create multi-frame images with /tools/create-dicom (by adding a
  "MultiFrame" flag to avoid creating a series)

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Long-term
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* Stick to the JSONapi or JAREST guidelines for a "v2" of the API:
  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orthanc-users/Bag-SwEE9ZI/-w7QXI6p7-oJ
  http://www.admiraalit.nl/jarest/


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DICOM
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Short-term
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* Support C-GET: 
  http://dclunie.blogspot.be/2016/05/to-c-move-is-human-to-c-get-divine.html
* Check Big Endian transfer syntax in ParsedDicomFile::EmbedImage and
  DicomImageDecoder

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Long-term
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* Support DICOM TLS (cf. "--enable-tls" in storescp)
* Support Storage Commitment:
  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orthanc-users/VZOn8St65jw/s8kg_OHesj0J


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Plugins
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SDK
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* Image transcoding API
* Add plugins for normalized operations (notably so as to support
  Print SCU/SCP):
  https://www.medicalconnections.co.uk/kb/DICOM_Print_Service

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Ideas of plugins
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* DICOM-RT primitives (RT-STRUCT, RT-PLAN, RT-DOSE)
* Converter to/from NIfTI
* MySQL database plugin
* Decode JPEG2k with grok: https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok
* Generate dynamic content using Lua:
  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/KompazkxRSs/5Rh03mzgDAAJ


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Lua
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* Configure HTTP headers from Lua (in HttpGet(), HttpPost(),
  HttpPut(), HttpDelete(), RestApiGet(), RestApiPost(), RestApiPut()
  and RestApiDelete().
  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orthanc-users/WNnW187OILM/6XX_bm96BwAJ


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Performance
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Orthanc Book
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Code refactoring
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* Use Semaphore::Locker everywhere (instead of explicit
  Release() and Acquire())
* Avoid direct calls to FromDcmtkBridge (make most of its 
  methods private), go through ParsedDicomFile wherever possible


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Platform-specific
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Packaging
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* CentOS and RHEL through EPEL:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_Package_Maintainers

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Big-endian architectures
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* Check the generated 16bpp PNG images

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Microsoft Windows
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* Add compatibility with non-ASCII paths (Orthanc expresses its paths
  as UTF-8 strings, but Windows expects them to be translated to the 
  system locale)


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External applications
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* Create REST bindings with Slicer
* Create REST bindings with Horos/OsiriX