Orthanc for Education

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Dear Orthanc community,

I am pleased to announce the release of the Education plugin for Orthanc, the result of several months of dedicated development.

The Education plugin turns Orthanc into a tool for sharing medical images with students for educational purposes. The plugin also supports the LTI 1.3 protocol, allowing integration with Learning Management Systems such as Moodle.

The images can be displayed using the Web viewers that are integrated as plugins for Orthanc (i.e., Stone Web viewer, OHIF, and Kitware VolView). The plugin also includes support for virtual microscopy: It facilitates the DICOM-ization of whole-slide images and offers a Web-based viewer through an intuitive interface to the whole-slide imaging primitives of Orthanc.

Here are some links:

Version 1.0 of the Education plugin is already available as precompiled binaries and in the jodogne/orthanc-plugins Docker images. It will soon be part of the official Microsoft Windows installers, as well as of the orthancteam/orthanc Docker images.

Enjoy,
SĂ©bastien-

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This is so great (and timely) for us at NOSM.ca - we are currently setting up an official Orthanc that would integrate into Moodle.

The one thing I wish we had is some kind of overlay or window title for the WSI module that has some identifier (Case #, patient name, tissue type) that we could use.

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Hello,

Thanks for the positive feedback!

With the just-released version 1.1 of the education plugin, you can see the title of the image in the WSI viewer.

Kind Regards,
SĂ©bastien-