Sébastien Jodogne @sjodogne@qoto.org

The greatest threat to the development of free and open-source software in the academic world? Scientists using such software in their research, but not appropriately citing the software in their publications.

Today we are proud to announce that Digital Public Goods Alliance has recognized Orthanc as a digital public good!

This underscores our commitment to contribute to Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 9 (health, innovation, infrastructure). This also affirms our mission to freely share the technical knowledge about medical imaging at large. #DICOM #SDG #UCLouvain

Press release (in French): https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/presse/actualites/un-logiciel-uclouvain-obtient-le-label-digital-public-goods-de-l-onu-une-premiere-en-belgique.html

#OTD Exactly eleven years ago, after six months of research in the Department of medical physics at
the University Hospital of Liège, I publicly released the first version of Orthanc (that was known as Palantir at that time). #FreeSoftware #DICOM

➡️ https://hg.orthanc-server.com/orthanc/rev/3959d33612cc

Here is the direct link to one sample IIIF manifest that is generated on-the-fly by our demo server, and which can for instance be opened by the Mirador viewer: https://wsi.orthanc-server.com/orthanc/wsi/iiif/series/645ce678-fc6c0544-2ce7fcc0-0c3f2ba6-2e4b63b5/manifest.json

Version 2.0 of the whole-slide imaging plugin for Orthanc is available! Besides many minor improvements, this release brings support for International Image Interoperability Framework. This new feature creates a bridge between the #IIIF and #DICOM worlds, with applications to telepathology and teleradiology.

➡ https://book.orthanc-server.com/plugins/wsi.html#support-of-iiif

The call for contributions to the Orthanc Conference 2023 is now open! Topics of interest include:

Orthanc-specific contributions:
- Real-world deployments of Orthanc (clinical departments, hospitals, regional/country-wide implementations,...).
- Scientific projects that leverage Orthanc.
- Industrial applications built using Orthanc.
- Extensions to Orthanc (scripts, plugins,...).

Contributions beyond Orthanc:
- Free, libre and open-source software (FLOSS), as well as open hardware projects, for medical imaging and digital pathology.
- FLOSS for the automated analysis of medical images (computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning).
- Healthcare interoperability through FLOSS and open standards (#DICOM, #BIDS, #NIfTI, #IIIF, #FHIR,...).

Deadline: Early September.

Full information is available at: https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=orthanc-con-2023

Je suis profondément attristé d'apprendre le décès du Prof. Pierre-Arnoul de Marneffe. J'ai eu l'immense chance de le côtoyer durant de nombreuses années à l'Université de Liège, d'abord comme étudiant, puis comme assistant dans son service. Il a énormément compté dans mon parcours. Toujours attentif à la pédagogie de l'algorithmique, il aura marqué de nombreuses générations d'étudiants. Toutes mes condoléances à sa famille et à ses proches.

https://www.ag-group.be/fr/avis-de-deces/pierre-arnoul-de-marneffe/

Ever wanted to have a fast and effortless access to the OHIF viewers right from Orthanc? This is now possible thanks to the new #OHIF plugin for #Orthanc! #DICOM

➡️ Check out the official announcement: https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/new-plugin-ohif/3627
➡️ Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lzddzq9iT4

Several #PhD positions for software engineers and for bioengineers are currently available in my research lab at #UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve and Charleroi). Feel free to get in touch with me for more information!
➡️ https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~sjodogne/#jobs