Overview
Orthanc® is a lightweight DICOM server with web interface for healthcare and medical research. It is designed to improve the DICOM flows in hospitals and to support research about the automated analysis of medical images. Orthanc® lets its users focus on the content of the DICOM files, hiding the complexity of the DICOM format and of the DICOM protocol.
This server is adapted for AWS, it can be connected with AWS S3 storage. It uses the HTTPS encryption protocol for the web interface without the need to assign a domain name.
Areas of use:
- Medical institutions, healthcare.
The key features:
- Easy-to-use. After launching, the server is immediately operational. No server setup required for the simplest use.
- Can act as a server and a client at the same time.
- A convenient web interface.
- HTTPS protocol for web interface even if the domain name is not assigned.
- Ports: 8042 - web interface, 4242 - DICOM
- Possibility to connect with AWS S3 for storing uploaded files.
- Contains additional plugins of recent versions as of June 2024.
Installed plugins:
- Authorization. Advanced authorization plugin for Orthanc. (additional settings are required)
- AWS S3 Storage. Connection to AWS S3 for storing uploaded files. (additional settings are required)
- Connectivity-checks. Utilities to check connectivity to DICOM modalities, DICOMweb servers and Orthanc peers. (additional settings are required)
- Delayed-deletion. Plugin removing files from storage asynchronously.
- Dicom-Web. Implementation of DICOMweb (QIDO-RS, STOW-RS and WADO-RS) and WADO-URI.
- GDCM. Decoder/transcoder of medical images using GDCM.
- Housekeeper. Optimizes your DB and storage.
- Indexer. Synchronize Orthanc with directories containing DICOM files.
- Multitenant-dicom. Multitenant plugin for Orthanc.
- MySQL-index. Stores the Orthanc index into a MySQL database.
- MySQL-storage. Stores the Orthanc storage area into a MySQL database.
- Neuro. Add support for NIfTI in Orthanc.
- OHIF plugin for Orthanc.
- Orthanc-Explorer-2. Advanced User Interface for Orthanc.
- Osimis-Web-Viewer. Provides a Web viewer of DICOM series within Orthanc.
- Python. Allows you to write and launch your own Python scripts as Orthanc plugins.
- Serve-folders. Serve additional folders with Orthanc. (additional settings are required)
- STL plugin for Orthanc.
- Stone-Webviewer.
- TCIA. Interface with TCIA (The Cancer Imaging Archive).
- Transfers. Accelerates transfers and provides storage commitment between Orthanc peers.
- Kitware's VolView for Orthanc.
- Web-Viewer. Provides a Web viewer of DICOM series within Orthanc.
- Worklists. Serve DICOM modality worklists from a folder with Orthanc.
- WSI. Provides a Web viewer of whole-slide microscopic images within Orthanc.
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Highlights
- AWS Cloud ready DICOM Server
- It can be connected with AWS S3 storage
- Easy-to-use. After launching, the server is immediately operational. No server setup required for the simplest use.
Details
Typical total price
$0.082/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
---|---|---|---|
t2.xlarge | $0.063 | $0.186 | $0.249 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.084 | $0.371 | $0.455 |
t3.nano | $0.063 | $0.005 | $0.068 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.063 | $0.01 | $0.073 |
t3.small | $0.063 | $0.021 | $0.084 |
t3.medium | $0.063 | $0.042 | $0.105 |
t3.large | $0.063 | $0.083 | $0.146 |
t3.xlarge | $0.063 | $0.166 | $0.229 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.084 | $0.333 | $0.417 |
t3a.nano | $0.063 | $0.005 | $0.068 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
You may terminate the instance at anytime to stop incurring charges.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Automatic generation of random application entity title (AET) for security reasons has been added. Lua has been installed.
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Launch the server. This server does not require powerful computing resources; you can choose a simple instance type.
- Attach the elastic IP to the instance (recommended).
"Old" (classic) web interface:
https://Server_IP_Address:8042
"New" web interface:
https://Server_IP_Address:8042/ui/app/
default username: admin
initial password is your instance ID
When using the HTTPS protocol to access the web interface, your web browser may display a message about potential risks associated with the use of self-signed certificates. In this case, please proceed and accept the risks, as our objective is to encrypt traffic.
Although the server is working after launching, it is recommended to view and configure configuration files for your tasks.
Configuration files of the server and its plugins are located in the directory:
/etc/orthanc/
The main configuration file of the Orthanc server:
/etc/orthanc/orthanc.json
After editing the configuration files, please do not forget to restart the Orthanc main service: "sudo systemctl restart orthanc"
If you plan to connect this server with other servers, it is convenient to use the "Connectivity-checks" plugin to configure this server and monitor the status of the connections. To check the status of connections, please navigate to the plugins page in Orthanc Explorer and click on "Connectivity-checks" item.
By default, this server uses disk space of the instance for file storage. However, there is also the option to use an AWS S3 bucket for file storage. To enable the AWS S3 plugin:
- Please edit the file "/etc/orthanc/aws-s3.json" (for example, using a command "sudo nano /etc/orthanc/aws-s3.json").
- Run the command "bash /home/ubuntu/s3enable.sh" to activate AWS S3 plugin. (To deactivate this plugin you can run command "bash /home/ubuntu/s3disable.sh")
- Make sure that AWS S3 plugin appeared in the plugin list ("Plugin" button in the Orthanc Explorer)
- To test the functionality of the S3 plugin, please upload the some test studies from your PC ("Upload" button in Orthanc Explorer) and make sure the new files appear in your S3 bucket.
For more detailed information regarding Orthanc, visit:
https://book.orthanc-server.com/index.html
Linux username: ubuntu
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