Overview
Orthanc® is a lightweight DICOM PACS medical imaging server with web interface for healthcare, radiology, and medical research. It is designed to improve the DICOM flows in hospitals and to support research about the automated analysis of medical images. Orthanc® lets its users focus on the content of the DICOM files, hiding the complexity of the DICOM format and of the DICOM protocol.
The server is fully optimized for AWS. When deployed using CloudFormation, an S3 bucket is automatically created and attached as file storage. Additionally, a domain name can be assigned to the server during deployment if it is managed in Route 53. Even if no domain name is specified, the web interface will still be accessible via HTTPS.
Areas of use:
- Medical institutions and healthcare systems, with a particular focus on radiology.
The key features:
- Easy-to-use. After launching, this medical imaging server is immediately operational. No server setup required for the simplest use.
- A convenient web interface.
- Automated AWS S3 Bucket creation and server configuration for file storage when deploying using the CloudFormation template.
- Automated domain binding to the server and installation of a free Let's Encrypt certificate with auto-renewal functionality for HTTPS when deploying using the CloudFormation template.
- HTTPS protocol even if a domain name is not assigned to server with a self-signed certificate generated for it.
- Ports: 8042 - web interface, 4242 - DICOM.
- Possibility to connect with AWS S3 for storing uploaded files.
- Contains additional plugins of recent versions as of June 2024.
Installed plugins:
- Authorization. Advanced authorization plugin for Orthanc. (additional settings are required)
- AWS S3 Storage. Connection to AWS S3 for storing uploaded files.
- Connectivity-checks. Utilities to check connectivity to DICOM modalities, DICOMweb servers and Orthanc peers. (additional settings are required)
- Delayed-deletion. Plugin removing files from storage asynchronously.
- Dicom-Web. Implementation of DICOMweb (QIDO-RS, STOW-RS and WADO-RS) and WADO-URI.
- GDCM. Decoder/transcoder of medical images using GDCM.
- Housekeeper. Optimizes your DB and storage.
- Indexer. Synchronize Orthanc with directories containing DICOM files.
- Multitenant-dicom. Multitenant plugin for Orthanc.
- MySQL-index. Stores the Orthanc index into a MySQL database.
- MySQL-storage. Stores the Orthanc storage area into a MySQL database.
- Neuro. Add support for NIfTI in Orthanc.
- OHIF plugin for Orthanc.
- Orthanc-Explorer-2. Advanced User Interface for Orthanc.
- Osimis-Web-Viewer. Provides a Web viewer of DICOM series within Orthanc.
- Python. Allows you to write and launch your own Python scripts as Orthanc plugins.
- Serve-folders. Serve additional folders with Orthanc. (additional settings are required)
- STL plugin for Orthanc.
- Stone-Webviewer.
- TCIA. Interface with TCIA (The Cancer Imaging Archive).
- Transfers. Accelerates transfers and provides storage commitment between Orthanc peers.
- Kitware's VolView for Orthanc.
- Web-Viewer. Provides a Web viewer of DICOM series within Orthanc.
- Worklists. Serve DICOM modality worklists from a folder with Orthanc.
- WSI. Provides a Web viewer of whole-slide microscopic images within Orthanc.
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Highlights
- AWS Cloud ready DICOM Server with AWS S3 support for file storage.
- Automated S3 Bucket creation and server configuration when deploying using the CloudFormation template. Automated domain binding to the server and installation of a free Let's Encrypt certificate with auto-renewal functionality for HTTPS when deploying using the CloudFormation template.
- Easy-to-use. After launching, this medical imaging server is immediately operational. No server setup required for the simplest use.
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t3.small Recommended | $0.063 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.063 |
m5dn.2xlarge | $0.084 |
m5a.12xlarge | $0.084 |
m6a.xlarge | $0.063 |
m6i.metal | $0.084 |
m6a.32xlarge | $0.084 |
t3a.micro | $0.063 |
m5ad.large | $0.063 |
m5ad.8xlarge | $0.084 |
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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If the Standalone AMI delivery method is used:
- In order to use AWS S3 bucket for data storage, you will need to modify the configuration file and enable the corresponding plugin manually.
- The Orthanc server's web interface will be accessible via its IP address over HTTPS, with a self-signed certificate generated for it. You will be able to point your own domain to this server later.
If CloudFormation template delivery method is used:
- An AWS S3 bucket will be created to store files, and Orthanc will be automatically configured to work with it.
- To deploy the Orthanc server under your domain or subdomain (already present in your Route 53 Hosted Zone), simply specify the domain name in the CloudFormation template parameters - all necessary server and Route 53 configurations will be handled automatically. A free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt with automatic renewal will also be installed.
Instructions for deploying the Orthanc server from the Standalone AMI:
Launch the server. This server does not require powerful computing resources; you can choose a simple instance type. If the Elastic IP was assigned to a running instance, the instance must be restarted.
Linux username: admin
Web interfaces:
- "Old" (classic): https://[Public IP address]:8042
- "New" web interface: https://[Public IP address]:8042/ui/app/
- default username: admin; initial password is your instance ID
When using the HTTPS protocol to access the web interface by IP, your web browser may display a warning about potential risks due to using an IP address in the URL. In this case, you can proceed and accept the risks, as our main objective is to encrypt traffic, and using an IP address in a web browser is safe for our purposes.
Although the server is working after launching, it is recommended to view and configure configuration files for your tasks:
- Configuration files of the server and its plugins are located in the directory: /etc/orthanc/
- The main configuration file of the Orthanc server: /etc/orthanc/orthanc.json
After editing the configuration files, please do not forget to restart the Orthanc main service: "sudo systemctl restart orthanc".
If you plan to connect this server with other servers, it is convenient to use the "Connectivity-checks" plugin to configure this server and monitor the status of the connections. To check the status of connections, please navigate to the plugins page in Orthanc Explorer and click on "Connectivity-checks" item.
By default, this server uses disk space of the instance for file storage. However, you can configure Orthanc to use an existing AWS S3 bucket as the file storage. To enable the AWS S3 plugin:
- Please edit the file "/etc/orthanc/aws-s3.json" (for example, using a command "sudo nano /etc/orthanc/aws-s3.json").
- Run the command "bash /home/admin/s3enable.sh" to activate AWS S3 plugin. (To deactivate this plugin you can run command "bash /home/admin/s3disable.sh")
- Make sure that AWS S3 plugin appeared in the plugin list ("Plugin" button in the Orthanc Explorer)
- To test the functionality of the S3 plugin, please upload the some test studies from your PC ("Upload" button in Orthanc Explorer) and make sure the new files appear in your S3 bucket.
Linux username: admin
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