Volview plugin and annotations

The Volview plugin appears to have some rudimentary measurement and annotation capability.

Is this user generated data subsequently available by way of an Orthanc meta data field or some other Orthanc API call?

I attempted to use the “Save Session” option (second thumbnail in the column of Volview thumbnails), but it generated an error. Clicking “Save Session” appears to spawn some javascript pipelines in the background which end in an uncaught error: DOMException Failed to execute ‘ImportScripts’.

Thanks,
John.

Hi,

Actually, the VolView plugin is just a packaging of the VolView plugin, we don’t know much about the internals and, right now, nothing was done to integrate annotations.

You may get in touch with their support to check if something can be done. Since VolView uses DICOMWeb, I guess that the only possibility for them is to generate a new instance and store it in Orthanc through Stow-RS.

HTH,

Alain.

Thanks Alain.

Out of curiosity, are you bundling the VolView javascript source (by way of some form of compilation) into the plugin? Or are you referencing their service over the network in real time?

I ask because I found Kitware’s github for the VolView source, but Kitware doesn’t seem to have any instructions for how to install from source. By all appearances, it looks like a Node based package. I thought I would play with it to see when and how to turn on/off saving segmentations, but I couldn’t make any headway because of the lack of documentation.

Kitware’s own documentation seems to direct users to their online website as a feature: Users don’t need to install it themselves.

John.

Hello John,

The VolView application is compiled from sources by the following script:
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/hg/orthanc-volview/file/default/Resources/CreateVolViewDist.sh

So, all the assets of VolView are embedded into the plugin. and the plugin should not depend on Kitware’s Web site.

Regards,
Sébastien-

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