Mobile DICOM Viewers
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Marco Barnig
Dec 16, 2015, 6:37:24 AM12/16/15
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Dear all,
I completed the evaluation of 29 native mobile DICOM viewers on iOS and Android in the context of the development of RadioLogic, an educational tool for radiologists.
I used Orthanc as a PACS server for the tests. For my own needs I assembled the results in a blog post on my website "Internet with a Brain".
Some of you might be interested in specific aspects of these tests and I want to share my findings.
A short summary is given below :
"Among the 29 tested native mobile DICOM viewers, 18 are iOS apps, 6 are Android apps and 5 are available on the two platforms.
9 viewers can be configured to access a vendor-neutral PACS server, but only 5 of them work as expected and comply with the Orthanc PACS server.
Among them are the three renowned commercial viewers iMango, iTA View and Osirix HD (priced between 15 and 50 USD), one free app (iPaxera) developed by a world leading medical imaging solution provider (Paxeramed Corp) and one app (DICOM IR) created by an independent free-lance developer (Pietro Zuco). The last one is free for a short time.
The other 4 configurable viewers are limited, partially disabled or crashing.
The remaining viewers are demo apps working with proprietary PACS systems, displaying only DICOM files loaded from DropBox or from another web server, crashing or working not at all. There are additional DICOM viewer apps in the AppStore and the Google PlayStore which have not been tested because they were not updated in the last two years."
The full report with a lot of screenshots is available at my blog www.web3.lu/mobile-dicom-viewers/
best regards,
Marco Barnig
I completed the evaluation of 29 native mobile DICOM viewers on iOS and Android in the context of the development of RadioLogic, an educational tool for radiologists.
I used Orthanc as a PACS server for the tests. For my own needs I assembled the results in a blog post on my website "Internet with a Brain".
Some of you might be interested in specific aspects of these tests and I want to share my findings.
A short summary is given below :
"Among the 29 tested native mobile DICOM viewers, 18 are iOS apps, 6 are Android apps and 5 are available on the two platforms.
9 viewers can be configured to access a vendor-neutral PACS server, but only 5 of them work as expected and comply with the Orthanc PACS server.
Among them are the three renowned commercial viewers iMango, iTA View and Osirix HD (priced between 15 and 50 USD), one free app (iPaxera) developed by a world leading medical imaging solution provider (Paxeramed Corp) and one app (DICOM IR) created by an independent free-lance developer (Pietro Zuco). The last one is free for a short time.
The other 4 configurable viewers are limited, partially disabled or crashing.
The remaining viewers are demo apps working with proprietary PACS systems, displaying only DICOM files loaded from DropBox or from another web server, crashing or working not at all. There are additional DICOM viewer apps in the AppStore and the Google PlayStore which have not been tested because they were not updated in the last two years."
The full report with a lot of screenshots is available at my blog www.web3.lu/mobile-dicom-viewers/
best regards,
Marco Barnig
Sébastien Jodogne
Dec 17, 2015, 4:26:14 AM12/17/15
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Wow! Thanks for sharing this extremely interesting information!
Just shared it on Twitter:
Regards,
Sébastien-
Onn Akbar Ali
Oct 20, 2016, 12:48:45 PM10/20/16
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May i add, Ipaxera is one of the few mobile dicom viewers that can display multiframe Jpeg images ( such as angiography ) quite well . No issue accessing orthanc via wifii network.
brilliant information . thanks a bunch
Marco Barnig
Oct 20, 2016, 4:28:04 PM10/20/16
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Thank you for your feedback.
I did a quick update of my post about mobile DICOM viewers this evening. There are some new versions of the apps available. I will check them in the next days and update my post if there are outstanding changes.
best regards,
Marco Barnig
Sébastien Jodogne
Oct 21, 2016, 3:01:25 AM10/21/16
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Dear Marco,
Once again, thank you very much for providing this insightful source of information!
It is nice that Onn Akbar Ali has posted his message, as this reminded me to index your post inside the Orthanc Book:
Thanks again to both of you,
Sébastien-
Evlyn
Mar 7, 2018, 7:38:48 AM3/7/18
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Hi,
I have installed the iPaxera app in my iPad and added my Orthanc server as node. Then I tried Query Retrieve, but I am getting an error response like " Search Error : No Results Found". Do I need to manually configure the local settings of my device (AETitle, IP & Port), in my Orthanc Server ? Is this the way all the available applications work ?
I have installed the iPaxera app in my iPad and added my Orthanc server as node. Then I tried Query Retrieve, but I am getting an error response like " Search Error : No Results Found". Do I need to manually configure the local settings of my device (AETitle, IP & Port), in my Orthanc Server ? Is this the way all the available applications work ?
Sébastien Jodogne
Mar 7, 2018, 7:43:48 AM3/7/18
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Hello,
The configuration of DICOM Query/Retrieve is explained in the Orthanc Book:
Sébastien-
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