The project aimed at allowing authenticated users from outside an institution to access DICOM images of the Radiology RIS, using an HTTP webservice (DICOM part18) as a broker. This allow ease of access and a reduction in bandwith due to JPEG lossless compression, and region selection.
Description of the project implementing the DICOM part 18. Allowing authenticated users from outside to access to RIS servers.
This implementation allowed a transparent and scalable way of accessing DICOM objects from outside of institution. The Webservice implemented using JAVA Servelets, and PIXELMED toolkit communicate with internal RIS servers, and after some encoding and region detection the image is available through the webservice.
Also to test out this system, an applet was also created to be easier to the user accessing the radiology images.
A Viewer to allow the user an easy access to the system.
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