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Open Source in Medical Imaging

2012 Imaging Informatics Open Source Leadership Award

ANCR – Alert Notification of Critical Results
Luciano M.S. Prevedello, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Ryan Roobian, CIIP, Symantec
Elliot J. Wasser, MD, CIIP, Center for Evidence Based Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Previous Open Source Plug Fests

5th Annual Open Source Plug Fest at SIIIM 2012 - The 2012 Open Source Plug Fest featured developers and representatives from many open source communities helped attendees understand and begin using powerful open source programs.

The How to Use Mirth Connect – Part 1 is one of the open source presentations from the 2012 Plug Fest. Also available are Part 2 and Part 3.

4th Annual Open Source Plug Fest at SIIIM 2011 - The Open Source Plug Fest at the SIIM 2011 Annual Meeting identified the advantages of open source software and described some of the most successful open source projects used in imaging informatics.

2010 Open Source Plug Fest — The Open Source Plug Fest at the SIIM 2010 Annual Meeting featured developers and representatives from a variety of open source communities who helped attendees understand and begin using these powerful programs.

Plugging in at SIIM 2009 — On Friday, June 5 during the SIIM 2009 Annual Meeting, participants browsed the bazaar of open source image projects and got a hand in getting started at the SIIM 2009 Open Source "Plug Fest".

Open Source Resources

An Open Source Toolkit for Medical Imaging De-Identification — Rodríguez González D, Carpenter T, van Hemert JI, Wardlaw J.; Journal: European Radiology

Wikipedia — List of Open Source Healthcare Software 

Open Source Software and Social Networks: Disruptive Alternatives for Medical Imaging —Ratib O, Rosset A, Heuberger J; Journal: European Journal of Radiology

The Journal of Digital Imaging Special Issue: Open Source Application for Imaging Informatics in Medicine — This special supplement is available online, and all articles are open access!

Open Source in Imaging Informatics — Paul Nagy, PhD's introductory article in the November 2007 JDI Supplement on Open Source. The open source community within radiology is a vibrant collection of developers and users working on scores of collaborative projects with the goal of promoting the use of information technology within radiology for education, clinical, and research purposes. This community, which includes many commercial partners, has a rich history in supporting the success of the digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard and today is pioneering interoperability limits by embracing the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. This article describes only a small portion of the more successful open source applications and is written to help end users see these projects as practical aids for the imaging informaticist and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) administrator.

SIIM-Sponsored Education Session at HIMSS — For over a decade, SIIM has served as a co-sponsor/collaborating organization for the HIMSS Annual Meeting. Each year, SIIM organizes and presents an educational session at the conference.
View presentation slides.

Open Source Solutions for Multi-Center Information Management — Abstracts and presentations made at MCIM 2007 (Conference Proceedings).

The Insight Journal — An open access online publication covering the domain of medical image processing and visualization

A Radiology Open Source FAQ — What is open source? A lot has been written and discussed about this sometimes-controversial topic. Steve Langer, PhD uses a question-and-answer format to present certain challenge questions concerning the suitability of open source (OS) in radiology and responses to those questions.