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Topic: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

It is able to load a series of special images stored in the DICOM format for review. Additionally Aeskulap is able to query and fetch DICOM images from archive nodes (also called PACS) over the network.
The goal of this project is to create a full open source replacement for commercially available DICOM viewers.
Aeskulap is based on gtkmm, glademm and gconfmm and designed to run under Linux. Ports of these packages are available for different platforms. It should be quite easy to port Aeskulap to any platform were these packages are available.

http://aeskulap.nongnu.org/

Is in Ubuntu repository

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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

I didn't see this one yet.  Looks simple.

I'm grabbing some DICOM images from http://pubimage.hcuge.ch:8080/ and I'm going to see what the big deal is about DICOM

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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

I had some x-rays of my spine taken by a chiropractor and he burned them onto a CD-ROM using Windows software.

I couldn't view the x-rays using Aeskulap on my Ubuntu (not surprising as I'd broken it fiddling! roll ) and ended up viewing on my iMac using Graphic Converter. Aeskulap was only DICOM viewer I could find in repositories at that time.

Your Mileage May Vary

For those interested here are my x-rays on Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/gleenglobes/se … 152627232/

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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

Gleen Globes wrote:

I had some x-rays of my spine taken by a chiropractor and he burned them onto a CD-ROM using Windows software.

I couldn't view the x-rays using Aeskulap on my Ubuntu (not surprising as I'd broken it fiddling! roll ) and ended up viewing on my iMac using Graphic Converter. Aeskulap was only DICOM viewer I could find in repositories at that time.

Your Mileage May Vary

For those interested here are my x-rays on Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/gleenglobes/se … 152627232/

I've had more success with xmedcon as a DICOM viewer.  The files appear in xmedcon easily but in Aeskulap they do not appear at all.  How did you succeed in loading them?

Also, Amide works if you use the option to import the file through xmedcon option but that program has many more features and is more than a simple viewer.

A search for DICOM in Synaptic yields these programs that we will have to look at:

amide
xmedcon
aeskulap
ctn
dcmtk
medcon (for batch file processing) and xmedcon (single files only)

Not to mention the programs for the NIFTI format (which seems to be DICOM's successor):

nifti-bin
dicomnifti

...and who knows what else...

EDIT

fslview
python-nifti

(any more?)

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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

Gleen Globes wrote:

I couldn't view the x-rays using Aeskulap on my Ubuntu (not surprising as I'd broken it fiddling!  ) and ended up viewing on my iMac using Graphic Converter.

I have new computers running Mythbuntu and Ubuntu arriving (hopefully) next week so will try out Aeskulap again and give xmedcon a go. I will report here on my findings.

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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

Gleen Globes wrote:
Gleen Globes wrote:

I couldn't view the x-rays using Aeskulap on my Ubuntu (not surprising as I'd broken it fiddling!  ) and ended up viewing on my iMac using Graphic Converter.

I have new computers running Mythbuntu and Ubuntu arriving (hopefully) next week so will try out Aeskulap again and give xmedcon a go. I will report here on my findings.

You do that.  I'm thinking of making a sticky thread listing the imaging programs available in the Ubuntu repositories so there will be a reference for people to breeze though.

In time, we'll hammer out instructions on how to use these programs.  Some of them are guaranteed a spot on our next LiveCD so it would be a good idea for the public to know how to use them off-the-bat.

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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

Gleen Globes wrote:

I have new computers running Mythbuntu and Ubuntu arriving (hopefully) next week so will try out Aeskulap again and give xmedcon a go. I will report here on my findings.

Took me a while to get organised but I have tried viewing my x-rays on my new laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates. Using Aeskulap I can't open the DICOMDIR file on CD given to me by my Chiropractor. The CD was made using iQ-View by Image Information Systems Ltd. and contains an auto-run .exe file for iQ-LITE. I have latest version of Wine running using WineHQ repository and .exe opened beautifully on CD and shows my x-rays perfectly. Unfortunately I get a "No study or bad DICOMDIR" when I point Aeskulap at the DICOMDIR file at the root of the CD.

Will continue trying Ubuntu DICOM viewers. xmedcon will open the DICOM files but only one at a time and all pop up in seperate windows. Saving as DICOM files from within xmedcon I cannot access the saved files with Aeskulap. xmedcon is only available from the terminal when I type "xmedcon" - does not appear in either Office or Graphics menus like Aeskulap does (I know I can add a short-cut in either menu but seems odd that isn't done when installed).

So alas the search for a perfect DICOM viewer native to Ubuntu continues.

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  • From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Re: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.

Gleen Globes wrote:

Took me a while to get organised but I have tried viewing my x-rays on my new laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates. Using Aeskulap I can't open the DICOMDIR file on CD given to me by my Chiropractor. The CD was made using iQ-View by Image Information Systems Ltd. and contains an auto-run .exe file for iQ-LITE. I have latest version of Wine running using WineHQ repository and .exe opened beautifully on CD and shows my x-rays perfectly. Unfortunately I get a "No study or bad DICOMDIR" when I point Aeskulap at the DICOMDIR file at the root of the CD.

Also, using Ubuntu 8.10.  I dont have a CD so I cannot use the DicomDir selection in the menu. To be honest, I had no idea that selection was only for CDs until seeing your post.  I opened Aeskulap again and noticed that the DicomDir selection has a CD icon next to it. 

The only way I've been able to get it to work is to put a bunch of DICOM images on my computer, choose 'Open' from the menu,  decend folders until I reach the actual images and then select ALL of them.  They will all load in Aeskulap and you can use the scrollbar to the right to run through them all by sliding it up and down.  Clicking on the picture and moving the mouse around will change the brightness of the image.

At least the viewer that came with the CD will work in WINE so that's something.

Will continue trying Ubuntu DICOM viewers. xmedcon will open the DICOM files but only one at a time and all pop up in seperate windows. Saving as DICOM files from within xmedcon I cannot access the saved files with Aeskulap. xmedcon is only available from the terminal when I type "xmedcon" - does not appear in either Office or Graphics menus like Aeskulap does (I know I can add a short-cut in either menu but seems odd that isn't done when installed).

So alas the search for a perfect DICOM viewer native to Ubuntu continues.

Also, the possibility exists that we aren't utilizing them efficiently.  I can see xmedcon being used as a way to check specific images where there is something interesting to see.  You also may want to give medcon a try.  It does batch file processing so you can process many files at once.

The fact that there is no menu icon for xmedcon or medcon has to change, though.  It should really be done at the Ubuntu level because it is their package.  I'll send them a notice in Launchpad.

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