{"id":282,"date":"2018-10-08T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominionsw.com\/wordpress\/?p=282"},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:39:23","slug":"3d-medical-imaging-and-the-web-the-future-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"3D Medical Imaging and the Web &#8211; the future is now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dominionsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Background2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Background2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Background2.png 744w, https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Background2-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Background2-624x335.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>The dream of a zero footprint DICOM viewer with desktop application features is quickly becoming a reality.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the opportunity to assist Radical Imaging, LLC and the Open Health Imaging Foundation add initial support for 3D volume rendering and multi-planar slicing to their already very powerful web-based DICOM viewer. Using vtk.js, the new JS library for 3D rendering from Kitware, we were able to get an initial version of the typical 4-up view &#8211; 3 planar views and one 3D volume view \u2013 working within a web browser with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p>Since I have worked with Kitware\u2019s VTK and ITK C++ libraries on a number of commercial applications, I was happy to see that the vtk.js library is built around the same concepts. Developers coming from the C++ libraries will see the familiar Actor, Mapper, and Renderer classes, as well as some new functionality that was previously only available within Kitware\u2019s Paraview application.<\/p>\n<p>Vtk.js is not yet as feature complete as the C++ libraries, but development is proceeding at a rapid pace and it will be only a short time before the two libraries offer substantially equivalent functionality.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of a longtime open source vendor like Kitware, and the Open Health Imaging Foundation&#8217;s existing web based platforms, I believe we will finally achieve a robust \u2013 and just as important, long-lived \u2013 web solution that can provide true desktop application functionality that just a dream until now.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Frank<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radicalimaging.com\/\">http:\/\/radicalimaging.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kitware.github.io\/vtk-js\/index.html\">https:\/\/kitware.github.io\/vtk-js\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtk-plugin.ohif.org\/?url=https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/ohif-viewer\/JSON\/PTCTStudy.json\">https:\/\/vtk-plugin.ohif.org\/?url=https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/ohif-viewer\/JSON\/PTCTStudy.json<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohif.org\/\">http:\/\/ohif.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of a zero footprint DICOM viewer with desktop application features is quickly becoming a reality. I&#8217;ve recently had the opportunity to assist Radical Imaging, LLC and the Open Health Imaging Foundation add initial support for 3D volume rendering and multi-planar slicing to their already very powerful web-based DICOM viewer. Using vtk.js, the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominionsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}