Medical/Tasks/Imaging

Even if many open source components are currently available, Fedora is still lacking proper medical imaging support. This page is an attempt to coordinate the effort to provide the required packages.

In order to cover the gap we need to add:

• A free out-of-the-box working PACS solution. Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) provide the medical imaging world with economical storage, rapid retrieval of images, access to images acquired with multiple modalities, and simultaneous access at multiple sites. Electronic images and reports are transmitted digitally via PACS; this eliminates the need to manually file, retrieve, or transport film jackets.

• DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) support. This is the universal format for PACS image storage and transfer.

• Viewers like [OsiriX] for the Mac world

• Imaging libraries specifically tailored for medical imaging

This table summarize the current status of the support.

Role	Proposed software	Link	Review	Comments
PACS	dcm4chee	http://www.dcm4che.org/	-	Suggested by [OsiriX]
	dcmtk	http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en	[573910]
	conquest	http://www.xs4all.nl/~ingenium/dicom.html	-
	cdmedic	http://cdmedicpacsweb.sourceforge.net/Home.html	-
DICOM viewer	kdradview	http://www.orcero.org/irbis/kradview/	-	Seems dead
	aeskulap	http://aeskulap.nongnu.org/	-	Seems dead
	imagej	http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/	[533744]	Packaged version misses a lot of plugins
	fiji	http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Fiji	-	Fiji is ImageJ batteries included
DICOM toolkit	gdcm	http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Main_Page	[566725]	Packaged
Image analysis library	itk	http://itk.org	[539387]