Weasis is a multipurpose standalone and web-based DICOM viewer with a highly modular architecture. It is a very popular clinical viewer used in healthcare by hospitals, health networks, multicenter research trials, and patients.
Weasis DICOM viewer is cross-platform, free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS), multi-language and allows a flexible integration to PACS, RIS, HIS or PHR. This multi-platform DICOM viewer runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It allows high-quality renderings with high performance through the OpenCV library.
Weasis is a multipurpose standalone and web-based DICOM viewer with a highly modular architecture. It’s available as a desktop applicatoin or as a web-based application. It’s used in healthcare by hospitals, health networks, multicenter research trials, and patients. Download File List - dcm4che, a DICOM Implementation in JAVA #osdn.
It has been designed to meet several expectations of clinical information systems and their future evolution regarding medical imaging: providing web-based access to radiological images, as well as covering a considerable number of DICOM types and offering multimedia capabilities.
Weasis can display the content of most DICOM files including multi-frame, enhanced, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MIME Encapsulation, SR, PR, KOS, AU, RT and ECG. It has a high level of DICOM implementation.
FAQ
Why is the Weasis license Eclipse Public License?
The Eclipse Public License is an OSI approved license and a commercially friendly copyleft license.Weasis-win
EPL is more business-friendly about some patent retaliation and reverse engineering clauses than LGPL. With EPL, derivative work can be distributed in any license type: open-source, freeware, commercial… However, if you distribute Weasis with some modifications (changing existing source code of the open-source Weasis plug-ins), even if it is a free distribution, you are obligated to make your modifications available to others.
Can Weasis be incorporated in DICOM CDs or other removable media?
Yes, the Weasis portable version can be copied in DICOM CD-ROMs as a multi-platform stand-alone viewer with launchers for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. The viewer requires that a Java Runtime Environment (JRE 8 or greater) be installed on the machine to run. If Java is not installed on Windows, a dialog will propose to install it from the Internet.
The viewer loads automatically images from DICOMDIR or from directories configured in 'weasis/conf/config.properties (by default weasis.portable.dicom.directory=dicom,DICOM,IMAGES,images).
For burning studies with Weasis, and additionnal plugin must be activated. In the web distribution, add weasis-ext.war. Download primera printers driver. In the portable distribution, 1) uncompress weasis-ext.war, 2) copy weasis-isowriter-x.x.x.jar into weasis-portable/weasis/, 3) replace the file conf/ext-config.properties, 4) edit ext-config.properties and modify ${weasis.codebase.ext.url} by ${weasis.codebase.url}
Installing dcm4chee 2.x on Windows.
Download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/files/dcm4chee/2.18.1/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/files/dcm4chee/2.18.3/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/files/JBoss/JBoss-4.2.3.GA/jboss-4.2.3.GA-jdk6.zip/download
Java SE Development Kit 7u80 Java SE Development Kit 7u80 (jdk-7u80-windows-i586.exe)
Install MySQL
Download MySQL and install.
Create a blank database
> mysql -u root -p
mysql> create schema pacsdb;
mysql> grant all on pacsdb.* to pacs@localhost identified by ‘pacs’;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> q
Install Java JDK
Run jdk-7u80-windows-i586.exe
Install dcm4chee
extract dcm4chee-2.18.1-mysql.zip
extract dcm4chee-2.18.3-mysql.zip o
copy content of 2.18.3 into 2.18.1 and overwrite any old files
delete serverdefaultdeploydcm4chee-web-ear-3.0.5-mysql.ear
delete dcm4chee-2.18.3
rename the dcm4chee-2.18.1 directory back to dcm4chee-2.18.3
Install Database
> cd sql
> mysql -u root -p pacsdb < create.mysql
Install JBoss
Extract jboss to a directory
cd dcm4chee-2.18.1bin
install_jboss.bat <directory of jboss>
Run
> cd bin
> set JAVA_HOME=c:Program Files (x86)Javajdk1.7.0_80 (note the trailing slash and lack of quotes)
> run.bat
Login
Weasis Tutorial
Default username is admin and password is admin