Integrate highdicom w/ DICOM web viewer

ImagingDataCommons / highdicom

High-level DICOM abstractions for the Python programming language

https://highdicom.readthedocs.io

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Integrate highdicom w/ DICOM web viewer #144

Closed DrexlerChao closed 2 years ago

DrexlerChao commented 2 years ago

Dear Sir,

The highdicom provides powerful DICOM SR and annotations API. But it seems to require integration with DICOM viewer.

As far as we know, Slim viewer doesn't include highdicom python package, correct? But it can generate corresponding annotations and SRs. Would you mind if I ask why Slim is not developed in python and then uses the highdicom package?

If we use the highdicom kit to develop the digital pathology web viewer and generate annotations and SRs at the same time, could you give some suggestions?

Thanks.

hackermd commented 2 years ago

highdicom and Slim have been designed to serve two different purposes:

highdicom is a library to encode/decode machine-generated image annotations and analysis results in DICOM format. Since most researchers and developers use Python to develop image analysis and machine learning solutions, highdicom has been implemented in the Python programming language.
Slim is a single-page web application that runs in the browser. Therefore, it has been implemented in JavaScript/TypeScript.

Note that the Slim viewer supports encoding of annotations using DICOM Structured Reporting (SR).

DrexlerChao commented 2 years ago

Hi @hackermd

Thank you very much for your detailed and clear explanation.