Re: ImageJ plugin for Orthanc
Hi Andreas and Karsten,
> > Side question: Should my plugin be part of the "orthanc" package
> > [1], of the "imagej" package, or should it be fully standalone?
>
> It is probably a lot easier for you to make it part of the
> orthanc package.
Mid-air collision with Andreas' answer, who would favor an independent package.
> As an aside, and regardless of whether ImageJ or the ImageJ
> Orthanc Plugin are useful in their own right, let me
> reiterate that ImageJ is irrelevant to the practice of
> medicine.
Even though I definitely agree with you, Orthanc also targets research in biomedical imaging (for which ImageJ is still the golden standard), and not only medical routine. Please also note that many medical physicists in hospitals take advantage of ImageJ for the clinical QA of DICOM modalities.
> Simply put: Debian doesn't have what it takes to be a DICOM
> viewer workstation for clinical work. The only viewer worth
> considering (Ginkgo CADx) for serious use is currently - as
> provided by Debian - terminally broken.
>
> Which is sad.
Perhaps you could give a look at the early demo of a Web viewer that is built as an Orthanc plugin [1].
Regards,
Sébastien-
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XD35OOCco&list=UUQLMxPfMtas60oVQFuRV8rg
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