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On Sunday 06 March 2011 05:30 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: You are welcome. Nothing beats the ole' venerable Debian. In fact, I was surprised to know about the distro focussed on the needs for biomedical researchers. I have been following the mailing lists for over two weeks now; thanks all of you!Hello, thanks for your interest in Debian Med. This was in response by a forum member; I couldn't find the web page but I am presuming that this comes with installation of "Elekta Machines"; possibly some sort of "internal builds" or not for public release. I still need to get a confirmation for the same. I'd update the list as soon as I get something about this.On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:30:40PM +0530, stereotactic wrote:I have checked this site and added those project I was able to find a homepage with description to an newly created task page about oncology[1]. I was not able to find more detailed information about openRADART Homepage: ??? TPS stands for "Treatment Planning System"; which I had mentioned in the previous thread that is an amalgamation of the DOCM viewer, ability to "contour" the images i.e. draw on the concerned structures, then define the radiation beam parameters; the resultant output would show how the different beam angles intersect and give the coverage of the organ as "Dose Volume Histogram". The TPS solutions in market are close sourced with heavily guarded algorithms.TPS Homepage: ??? AFAIK, Educase needs around $10,000 for hosting on the site for 'training' which is beyond the scope for those not having institutional subscriptions (and that effectively rules us out).There is no "downloadable source code".EduCase Homepage: http://www.educase.com/ -> but is tere any downloadable source code and what exactly does the program you get if you compile this code More than the Decompyler, these are two projects :Any help or guidance on the same issue would be more than welcome.I'm afraid that we can not (yet) provide a lot of help for the moment. The goal of Debian Med is to package all kind of free medical software to make it easily available in medical care. So I used your link to detect potential candidates for packaging in Debian. From a first look it seems that dicompyler ist the easiest packaging task (but I might be wrong here). So the help we could provide is to build those packages (or even help you building them by training how to do this properly) and including it into official Debian and thus enableing also a smooth propagation to derivatives (Ubuntu and others). 1) http://www.radonc.washington.edu/research/cancer-informatics/prism/ (I don't see any updates after 2004) 2) http://planunc.radonc.unc.edu/software/planunc/downloads/planunc_software/ (This takes you to the download page of the free software- no updates after 2008). Thanks once again but as you can see, the source code is written for 'perl' and can only be run in Windows. As far as my own limited understanding is concerned, would it be worthwhile to package the whole thing with "WINE + Perl+ Source Code"? That would be "one in all solution" because it would not be possible to write the code from ground up unless there is a project dedicated to the same (and I am missing it).If this sounds attractive to you it would be reasonable to subscribe out list and inform us about the most wanted targets. If you or somebody you might know want to speed up the process a bit it is a very good way to start with the packaging yourself and ask here for help if any technical problem might occure. This is also a dedicated specialist project but potentially a good idea. I can elaborate that on a separate thread, perhaps later.
Any other way out? I can help with testing; I can potentially rope
in other users (on debian) and help with bug reports, feedback and
possibly documentation (but none of us can code, as yet). One way out could be to design this TPS that can run on the laptops, can be hosted, perhaps give an option for remote access etc. There is nothing (so far) in the newer generation TPS that is open source, flexible and be hosted for training. --
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