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With the adoption of the new DICOM standard (WADO) for providing images
to the EMR, does anyone know the availability of WADO compliant web
viewers? Any open source?
FYI:
WADO = Web Access to DICOM persistent Objects and is Part 18 of the
DICOM standard
Thanks in advance,
Tim
Tim OConnor wrote:[color=blue]
> With the adoption of the new DICOM standard (WADO) for providing[/color]
images[color=blue]
> to the EMR, does anyone know the availability of WADO compliant web
> viewers? Any open source?
>
> FYI:
> WADO = Web Access to DICOM persistent Objects and is Part 18 of the
> DICOM standard
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim[/color]
Tim OConnor wrote:[color=blue]
> With the adoption of the new DICOM standard (WADO) for providing[/color]
images[color=blue]
> to the EMR, does anyone know the availability of WADO compliant web
> viewers? Any open source?
>
> FYI:
> WADO = Web Access to DICOM persistent Objects and is Part 18 of the
> DICOM standard
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim[/color]
GE's Centricity Enterprise Web supports WADO. But it's not free!
Marcel.
Tim OConnor wrote:[color=blue]
> With the adoption of the new DICOM standard (WADO) for providing[/color]
images[color=blue]
> to the EMR, does anyone know the availability of WADO compliant web
> viewers? Any open source?
>
> FYI:
> WADO = Web Access to DICOM persistent Objects and is Part 18 of the
> DICOM standard
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim[/color]
I doubt WADO compliance or web SSL built in access but, MYFreePacs may
offer something in the way of introduction to WADO-like software which
is avaiable but not open source.
DDorsey
> With the adoption of the new DICOM standard (WADO) for providing images[color=blue]
> to the EMR, does anyone know the availability of WADO compliant web
> viewers? Any open source?[/color]
Hy,
As WADO is to provide WEB access to dicom object, I understand
that ANY web browser could render the data. That is the purpose of
WADO to convert DICOM images to something displayable by any
browser like JPG, PNG, for images, XML for Structured Report etc.
The only thing you need to know is where to point your broser and
which parameter to use for displaying what you want.
Jean-Luc[color=blue]
>
> FYI:
> WADO = Web Access to DICOM persistent Objects and is Part 18 of the
> DICOM standard
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim[/color]
Want to both agree and disagree that any web browser can be a viewer
for WADO.
The question regarding WADO capable viewers in many ways misses the
point of WADO which is to provide an http/https transport to deliver
dicom objects from a repository to a consuming application. Since the
WADO requestor has to know some of the DICOM attributes of the object
in order to request it, there is really a missing piece. WADO is
query/retrieve via HTTP, except there is no query; so more accurately,
WADO is C-MOVE and C-GET via HTTP without C-FIND.
Anyway, in its most basic form, the WADO server MIME & Hex64 encodes
the DICOM object into the http stream. The receiving web application,
seeing the application\dicom MIME tagging on the data stream would look
up to see what viewers were registered to handle and view data with
that MIME type. The handling app could be separately launched or a
plugin. Think of PDF files transported from a webpage. Used to be the
browser had to launch the acrobat reader. Now there's an acrobat
plugin. Either way, the browser is invoking another component to render
and manipulate the mime encoded PDF object. WADO does the same thing
for DICOM. So, the question of WADO compliant viewers really missed the
point - its not the viewer, its the web application that can serve you
up a WADO URL that is needed.
However WADO also provides tags where the client can request that the
WADO server transcode the DICOM object into another MIME format before
transmitting it to the client. So the client (or the WADO URL serving
application) can ask to have the DICOM image transcoded into a JPEG
file of a particular resolution, with or without the dicom tags burned
into the pixels, for the whole image or just a part (there are quite a
number of options). With a JPEG image, the "viewer" would be the
browser itself. Although in the early days of the web, JPEGs might have
been launched as a separate viewer, today no self respecting browser
would have an external app be the "viewer" for a jpeg. A really
advanced WADO application could provide navigation controls for
zooming, panning the DICOM image in a cache on the webserver, and
providing WADO URLs for image subregions as JPEGS rendered in a
standard browser. In that sense, the web application could also be
considered a "WADO compliant" viewing application
Remember the missing WADO query? WADO doesn't say how the client came
to possess the DICOM UIDs it needs in order to use WADO to retrieve the
image in either the native application\dicom MIME encoding or as
image\jpeg MIME encode. The question could be asked, what Web
Applications are available to search for DICOM images and serve up
WADO references which would allow my browser to retrieve them. This
application would do the DICOM query for me, then retrieve the images,
then MIME encode them. I could use it to query a PACS and retrieve the
images to my web browser using without having a DICOM network
compliant application on my workstation.
Once you have identified one of these WADO serving applications, then
the question becomes, how do you actually view those images? How does
the WADO serving application actually provide the DICOM image data to
the browser? Does it transcode the images to JPEG images that the
browser can natively render; or does it MIME encode them as
application\dicom? In the latter case you need another application
which you can register on your local workstation as the handler for
MIME application\dicom. This could really be any existing application
or could be a web plug in. So, if you had a dicom image viewer already
installed on your machine (say Efilm, ImageJ, or any of the plethora of
image viewing apps), you could configure it to be the application\dicom
handler and viola' you have your "WADO compliant viewer".
Not really sure which of these questions the original poster was
asking. I think it was for viewing apps, but nothing about them is
"WADO compliant". You just need to get your browser mime controls
configured. Try ImageJ - better yet. Get your EMR to give you a WADO
URL where the server side transcodes the image to JPEG.
I would like to suggest RemotEye
([url]http://eng.neologica.it/prodotti/remoteye[/url]) as a web-based
full-featured DICOM image viewer. It is able to retrieve, decode and
display DICOM images downloaded from HTTP or FTP streams.
RemotEye can cooperate with WADO servers. As already pointed out, a
specific Web Application must manage the "logic" of how to provide the
correct DICOM images to the client viewer based on specific queries or
search criteria.
Hope it helps,
Marco.
Hello,
I have a small, might me a silly question. What is the basic difference
between JPIP (JPEG 2000 interactive protocol) and WADO? I can see both
are available to stream image data over http or https. Is there a
distinct difference both.
Recently DICOM WG4 has released a new supplement for JPIP in DICOM.
That is good news for us; we can stream large DICOM dataset over very
thin bandwidth.
With regards
Rady
Rady,
These are some differences I can spot from high-above, I am sure that
members of WG4 have a deeper insight on this.
The biggest difference could be that JPIP is a protocol which is being
adopted into Dicom while WADO is a 100% Dicom breed.
Another one would be that JPIP allows you to do data transfers under
various protocols, while WADO is strictly a HTTP/S designed mechanism.
Wado's clients would be Internet Browsers while JPIP will work _only_
with dicom-aware/compliant software.
Another big difference, I think, would be actual penetration level of
the two concepts in the standard: WADO is a broad, top-level
specification of an interface while JPIP gets down into the heart of
Dicom and adds another transfer syntax to the pot., not to mention the
bunch of tags to be added to 3.6
WADO is designed also to offer dicom objects in various formats;
conversions can be performed on the IODs and returned as XML or as
jpeg's.
The confluence of the two would be that both specify an ability of
retrieving portions of image from a larger image but the similarity
stops there, at least as I see it.
In fact, if I am not mistaking, I think that WADO would sit on top of
JPIP making use of the protocol's services.
HTH,
~~Razvan