Selecting/Exporting multiple patients or entire database

[Craig_Littlejohn]

I’ve had a good look through the forum messages and don’t see this one answered anywhere.

We have a small medical practice that generates about 50 patient’s worth of data (2-3 images each) per day, and I’d like to use Orthanc as a temporary server to store the images coming off our of x-ray machines.

From there I would like to periodically export them to Oxirix for longer term storage and viewing.

Looking at Orthanc Explorer, it seems you only have the ability to view/send/delete one patient’s data at a time. That would be very painful for hundreds/thousands of cases!

Is there a way to select multiple patients, or even the entire database, and export to an external drive, or to another DICOM node (i.e. Osirix)?

Craig

[jodogne]

Dear Craig,

Even if selecting multiple patients is not possible with the built-in GUI (aka. “Orthanc Explorer”), you can of course implement this feature on the top of Orthanc, at least by 2 different means:

• You can develop an alternative GUI that is dedicated to your needs, and that uses the REST API from JavaScript. It is even possible to extend the built-in GUI by creating a C++ plugin, so that all the features are smoothly integrated for the end user.

• You can create a back-end script that uses the REST API and that is continuously triggered (e.g. with as a crontab job). The distribution of Orthanc includes many such sample scripts written in Python (in the folder “Resources/Samples/Python”). The following scripts might be of special interest to you:

• Write to an external drive: https://code.google.com/p/orthanc/source/browse/Resources/Samples/Python/AutoClassify.py

• Send to another DICOM node (a Lua script might also be appropriate for auto-routing): https://code.google.com/p/orthanc/source/browse/Resources/Samples/Python/HighPerformanceAutoRouting.py

HTH,
Sébastien-