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.