Come on Ride a Train (to HealthVault)
Ron Sweeney on 2010-07-02 21:56:20 UTC
Yeah so I got my hack on with Microsoft HealthVault and came up with the dicomTRAIN. Im currently working on the PutThings method to upload the converted dicom file but time is time and pretty soon I crawl into my home office until next boating season so I plan to get the full 360 completed soon.
In a single statement, I have to say that Microsoft HealthVault > Google Health.
Use Case Ideas…
- Consumer upload of PEDS studies to reveal dosing information and present it as a report.
- Online DICOM conversion utility, manual or via API.
- Something to do while football is on Sunday.
- Audit the privacy of your portable Medical Imaging Studies.
dicomTRAIN alpha release
Ron Sweeney on 2010-02-02 22:53:11 UTC
On the onset of RSNA 2009, I decided to put some grunt work into dicomTRAIN and legitimize it a bit. If you are unfamiliar with the dicomTRAIN, its an online DICOM conversion utility written in Ruby on Rails.
Drop by and take it for a spin, im excited about enhancing it, but its good enough to release and use, while I troll for potential sponsors of the service.
Rubinius and DICOM Ruby
Ron Sweeney on 2009-12-03 03:55:00 UTC
Breaktime with Rubinius… ok, so my interest peaked and I wanted to see how it would go with my favorite gem, Ruby DICOM and a common task, anonymization. Im not sayin, im just sayin should I have gotten a better performance benchmark from rbx ?
Here is the lil script.
DICOM pcap
Ron Sweeney on 2009-08-16 11:37:00 UTC
I recently uploaded a DICOM association from OsiriX to the dcm4chee to pcapr.
Check it out, here
Convert and Watermark DICOM
Ron Sweeney on 2009-05-25 05:52:00 UTC
I managed to work this into a client’s workflow for mass converting and watermarking DICOM images. I did this with the ever cool, Imagemagick… sween$ composite -gravity SouthEast devarb-watermark.png 0015.DCM output.png |
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It happened! Ruby-DICOM is here!
Ron Sweeney on 2008-07-31 12:18:00 UTC
It happened! What happened Dave? Something Wonderful!
As of July 28th, 2008, Ruby gets a DICOM library. A straight up pure Ruby implementation with no external dependencies. Thanks to the hard work of Christoffer Lervag I can re-think my use of jruby and iterate all over dicom headers like Chewie rips out a hyper drive with all with ruby sweetness like Yukihiro Matsumoto intended.
Ok, so I have a half ass blog post on possibly the coolest 10 method ruby library since Warnock’s GapMinder plug-in lowered my productivity for an evening, but I have to apologize this gift fell from the sky, and I have only been able to play with 2 methods (of 10) so far, so bear with it as I hack through it over the next few days.
Though the library in its 2 day infancy only supports file level I/O, I already have to say that Mirth may already be replaced when it comes to databasing dicom values … I think a marriage of this library and active-record are in short order, check a full header dump below.
Although I have a basic love/hate with Rmagick, check out this ImageMagick launch with the pixel data of the first slice! cool eh? This library will build each slice into an array, send the object the .display message and view is better than a viewmaster.
Stay Tuned, and thanks Christoffer!
