Installation guide¶
Requirements¶
Hardware¶
The application can run on commodity or virtualized hardware. Typical server specs are:
4 Cores
16 GB Ram
100 GB System disk
X TB Shared network drive where the images from the PACS will be stored.
Software¶
The operation system needs to be Ubuntu 18 LTS. The following applications/libaries are also needed:
Solr 7.x (not compatible with Solr 8.x)
Dcmtk
Python 3.6
Nginx
Interface to PACS¶
For querying a PACS the PACS-RIS Crawler needs to be registered at the PACS and the following permissions are needed:
Right to query the PACS (C-Find)
Right to retrieve images from the PACS (C-MOVE)
Dicom Connection properties needed
AE_TITLE = AE-Title of the PACS-RIS registered at PACS
AE_CALLED = AE-Title of the PACS
PEER_ADDRESS = IP-Adress of the PACS
PEER_PORT = Peer port of the PACS
INCOMING_PORT = Incoming port for the images
Interface to RIS¶
To retrieve the RIS reports a HTTP rest interface is needed. As the query parameter the accession number is passed.