Sébastien Jodogne @sjodogne@qoto.org

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

Stone Web viewer 2.4 has just been released! This unique, open-source Web viewer of medical images is entirely written in C++ thanks to the #WebAssembly technology. This new version brings a huge number of improvements. Check out the online demo: https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=stone-web-viewer #DICOM

They say you should never release on Fridays, especially not before holidays. Anyway, the new release 3.0 of the whole-slide imaging plugin is now available!

This release brings support for on-the-fly generation of multi-resolution pyramids directly from DICOM instances. This new feature enables efficient viewing of high-resolution images directly in a Web browser (such as a mammogram), without downloading the full image locally or generating a separate series using the OrthancWSIDicomizer command-line tool. Compatibility with IIIF is provided as well.

A very joyful holiday season to all of you,
Sébastien-

A new release of the OHIF plugin for Orthanc has just been released, featuring OHIF 3.9.1.

Visualiser en 3D le crâne de l'homme de Spy ? C'est désormais à la portée du grand public en un clic grâce à notre collaboration entre l'UCLouvain et les Musées et Établissements Scientifiques Fédéraux.

▶️ https://naturalheritage.africamuseum.be/3DHOP/index.html?model=https://naturalheritage.africamuseum.be/Orthanc/stl/3dhop-instances/68e857cc-89b6c2e9-5d6e8ea2-9ed89ac5-e58f7cb8.nxz

Notre collaboration explore l'applicabilité d'Orthanc comme serveur multimédia pour le partage des numérisations des collections anthropologiques grâce au standard d'interopérabilité DICOM.

Ce travail vient d'être présenté au 35e édition du Colloque du Groupement des Anthropologistes de Langue Française (GALF 2024).

Version 2.1 of the whole-slide imaging plugin for Orthanc has just been released!

This new release brings a huge number of improvements, including better support for the Leica (.scn), Mirax (.mrxs), and Hamamatsu (.ndpi) formats, as well as for sparse tiling.

In addition, the "--padding" option of the OrthancWSIDicomizer command-line tool offers an easy way to pad JPEG, PNG, and plain TIFF images with a border to make their size compatible with deep zoom over the IIIF protocol.

➡️ Release notes: https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/hg/orthanc-wsi/file/OrthancWSI-2.1/NEWS

Happy twelfth birthday, Orthanc!

I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of the #DICOM #STL plugin for Orthanc.

This release upgrades the embedded Nexus viewer for cultural heritage to version 2.3. It also brings support for the #3DHOP viewer.

➡️ https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/plugins/stl.html

The first release of the #Java plugin for Orthanc is available! This plugin enables Orthanc to execute code written in Java. This can notably be used to combine Orthanc with the dcm4che library for #DICOM, or to turn Orthanc into a #FHIR server using HAPI. https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/java-plugin-for-orthanc-1-0/4812

Introducing our latest plugin for Orthanc! Now you can encapsulate #STL files into #DICOM instances seamlessly, then display them using any Web viewer. STL files can also be automatically generated from DICOM structure sets (RT-STRUCT). https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/plugins/stl.html

Yet another scientific publication that talks about Orthanc without citing the associated paper. Such a behavior hinders the search for funding to pursue the development of free and open-source projects for the benefit of the whole community.

GNU Health and Orthanc joining at the same #FOSDEM stand! #FreeSoftware #SocialMedicine #MedicalImaging

"L'UCLouvain recrute un·e Ingénieur·e logiciel pour le développement d'un hôpital virtuel libre et open-source", en support à ses missions d'enseignement en informatique médicale à l'École Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL). #DICOM #FHIR #Orthanc #GNUHealth

➡ https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAdministratif/job/Ing%C3%A9nieur%C2%B7e-logiciel-pour-le-d%C3%A9veloppement-d'un-h%C3%B4pital-virtuel/1003022901/

"GNU Health Conference: Free software for personal health records and more" #OrthancCon2023 #GHCon2023 https://www.heise.de/news/GNU-Health-Conference-Free-software-for-personal-health-records-and-more-9323681.html?hg=2&hgi=1&hgf=false

I am extremely honored to share that today, I received the GNU Health Social Medicine award for outstanding individual during the GNU Health conference 2023.

It's an award that gives deep meaning to the work I've been doing for over ten years, from a community whose aim is to promote public health and social medicine.

I'm especially grateful to @meanmicio, who is one of those few people who know how to unite people around a goal for the common good. Luis is one of the most inspiring people in my life. Thank you for everything you've taught me!

"Free software is not only about technology, it's about writing code with heart."

#GHCon2023

@meanmicio Hi Luis we're at the entry portal... could someone open us?

Time for the last technical talk of the conference, with Diego Victor de Jesus explaining how Orthanc router containers could help to scale and organize applications for medical imaging #GHCon2023 #OrthancCon2023

Gabriel Couture is now introducing PyOrthanc as a Python wrapper around the REST API of Orthanc, whose implementation was bootstrapped from the OpenAPI documentation provided by the Orthanc project at https://api.orthanc-server.com/ #GHCon2023 #OrthancCon2023

It's now up to the Orthanc Team to talk about the deployment of Orthanc as a secured cloud-based PACS #GHCon2023 #OrthancCon2023