Integration with third-party archives

Integration modes

VIEW can access studies from third-party archives using the following methods:

• DICOM Query/Retrieve: C-FIND, C-MOVE

• DICOMweb services: QIDO-RS, WADO-RS, WADO-URI

• File system integration

• Cloud storage integration

DICOM/DICOMweb integration

Configuring one or more DICOM/DICOMweb nodes within the system allows for querying and retrieving DICOM studies from third-party PACS systems.

Depending on the configuration, when invoked to open a study, VIEW queries for the specified study on all the configured DICOM/DICOMweb nodes (C-FIND or QIDO-RS), and then retrieves the study/instances (C-MOVE, WADO-RS, or WADO-URI).

Please, refer to https://o3enterprise.atlassian.net/wiki/x/GwBqn for more details.

File system integration

It is possible to ask VIEW to open files located in the filesystem. In order for this to work, the viewer backend must have read access to those locations.

With this kind of integration, it is possible to:

• Open a specific folder. The viewer will scan the folder for any DICOM files and open them. In this case, the system ignores any non-DICOM files found in the folder.

• Open a list of files stored in a local filesystem. Supported file types are:

  • DICOM files

  • Images files (JPEG, PNG, BITMAP)

  • Videos (MP4)

  • Documents (PDF)

  • Whole slide images (DICOM, NDPI, SVS, MRXS, TIFF)

• Open files stored on cloud storage systems (GCP buckets or Amazon S3). This method supports DICOM and non-DICOM files too.

Cloud storage integration

VIEW can also open files that are stored on cloud storage systems such as Google Cloud Buckets and AWS S3. VIEW will temporarily retrieve the files and open them.

The supported file types are the same as the File System integration.