Transfer DICOM

description:

• A project to set up three Orthanc DICOM servers
• DICOM C-STORE SCP Client to send DICOM data to those servers

structure :

.
├── add_server.sh
├── data
│   ├── generate.py
│   ├── test.dcm
│   └── test_template.json
├── docker-compose.yml
├── media
│   ├── diagram modified.png
│   ├── DICOM_Instances.png
│   ├── sending_to_servers.png
│   └── specific_Instance.png
├── monitoring.log
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── scripts
│   ├── monitor.py
│   └── send.py
└── servers
    ├── monitor_containers.sh
    ├── orthanc1.json
    ├── orthanc2.json
    ├── orthanc3.json
    └── start_servers.sh

Features:

• Deploys multiple Orthanc servers (ORTHANC1, ORTHANC2, ORTHANC3) using docker compose file.
• A Python client (using pynetdicom) sends DICOM files to multiple servers.
• Uses REST API queries to inspect orthanc servers and inspect stored DICOM instances.

we can extend that that REST API and make a flask dashboard or something like that but I prefer The CLI as it's more flexible

how it works:

• run docker compose up -d this will give you three preconfigured Orthanc servers on ports 8042, 8043, 8044
• craete a virtualenv and install requirements.txt
• then login to the orthanc servers
• • Orthanc Servers:
  • ORTHANC1 → http://localhost:8042
  • ORTHANC2 → http://localhost:8043
  • ORTHANC3 → http://localhost:8044
  • orthanc:orthanc

you can also launch more by utilizing the bash script start_servers.sh

just run the file with ./start_servers.sh and give add an incremental number from 4 forwad

ps: ./start_servers.sh 4

make sure that any new servers you launch add them to send.py to make them visible and send DICOM to them

Interaction with the servers:

• first you need to genrate DICOM Images (.dcm)
• you can use ./data/generate.py to genrate dummy dcm Images but missing metadata will make requests fail
• so I got some actual dcm data from cancerimagingarchive
• you can use that data ./data/T1_TRA_SE-69134
• now we are ready to send some DICOM to Orthanc servers

Interacting with Orthanc servers

• run the file send.py after configuring data paths and servers if you launched new ones
• 
• status (0000) !success

Uses REST API queries to inspect stored DICOM instances and query your servers.

• Inspecting DICOM Instances on a specific server

• Inspecting a specific DICOM Instance

• you can do some monitoring using monitoy_containers.sh this will give you live data about you containers

• monitoring data will go into monitoring.log

Next Steps

• Implement a load balancing mechanism to distribute DICOM data efficiently.
• Enhance security by configuring authentication, encryption, and access control.
• Explore data replication or federation between servers to ensure consistency.
• Automate deployment and scaling using container orchestra