Re: More comments on the list of medical software projects

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jörg Riesmeier wrote:

> I would suggest to move (or copy?) the following projects to the new
> category "Medical image communication":
>
> - CTN
> - DCMTK
> - DICOMscope
>
> Unfortunately, the difference between image communication and processing is
> not always that clear, e.g. what about image format conversion tools like
> the ones that are part of (X)MedCon and ECG2PNG, but also of DCMTK?  Maybe,
> there's still a need to assign certain projects to multiple categories.
So maybe a section "Medical imaging" would be appropriate and will lead
all users to the right direction while the exact description of the project
will serve for the details?

> Another observation: HL7 projects are listed under "Medical Record" (better
> German translation would probably be "Kranken-/Gesundheitsakte", see
> http://www.imi.med.uni-erlangen.de/team/download/mis_begriffsdefinitionen.pdf).
> However, HL7 is basically a messaging standard (used to exchange messages
> between medical information systems) and only recently started to define a
> format for clinical documents (Clinical Document Architectur, CDA).
Thanks for this hint.

> Btw, there are many more Open Source DICOM implementations (toolkits,
> viewers, etc.) that should probably be listed on the Debian-Med website.
> Some of them are:
>
> - dicom3tools, http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html
> - PixelMed Java DICOM Toolkit, http://www.pixelmed.com/
> - dcm4che, http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/
I guess it would help if people who are using these tools could answer
the following questions about the projects:

  1) Used often / kind of default tool in this area?
  2) Living project or dead upstream
  3) Definitely worth packaging because a great value added to Debian-Med
  4) If Java implemented: Runs with free Java implementations or requires
     propriatary Java

> See part 8 of the Medical Image Format FAQ for details:
> http://www.dclunie.com/medical-image-faq/html/part8.html
>
> Another interesting source of information is http://www.idoimaging.com/.
Thanks for these links.  We should probably add these to the web page.

Kind regards

         Andreas.