March 18, 201511 yr Has anyone ever tried to build a Mini PACS using unRAID and docker containers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system Thanks for listening!
March 18, 201511 yr It's a bit niche, I use PACS at work each day, but as I'm not a radiologist, have no desire to have remote access to it, what you thinking of doing, running a CT Scanner at home?!
March 18, 201511 yr Author No, I was thinking of building turnkey PACS systems for veterinary use. Vets have no money so a cheap PACS that is plug and play might be attractive to them.
March 18, 201511 yr Wow, great idea, but would imagine you're on your own with this one. Good luck though dude. Just looking at my cat and started to wonder how the hell you'd keep him still long enough to have an X-Ray or CT without giving him an anaesthetic...
March 18, 201511 yr Wow, great idea, but would imagine you're on your own with this one. Good luck though dude. Just looking at my cat and started to wonder how the hell you'd keep him still long enough to have an X-Ray or CT without giving him an anaesthetic... hit it with a brick and put it in a sack.
March 18, 201511 yr Author http://www.dcm4che.org/ Is an open source PACS with packages for most distros. I think I should try to run the PACS in a VM instead of a docker container.
March 18, 201511 yr does this thing need hardware input for the images ? i found this setup guide that's a little dated but claims to get things up and running in minutes.. http://cdmedicpacsweb.sourceforge.net/CDMEDIC_PACS_WEB.html
March 19, 201511 yr Author It uses DICOM standards to acquire and distribute images. Since X-Ray film is now obsolete, all modalities (Radiology image generating devices) output DICOM images over TCP/IP.
March 19, 201511 yr It uses DICOM standards to acquire and distribute images. Since X-Ray film is now obsolete, all modalities (Radiology image generating devices) output DICOM images over TCP/IP. I see, a little digging around and I found a pre-existing docker for this, which could be adapted to fit unraid. https://github.com/dpatriarche/docker-dcm4chee I forked it and ran a build in my docker vm i use for test building. I got some kind of web interface for settings etc... and then some records interface.
March 19, 201511 yr Had a play with the preexisting docker and thus far I have this. FROM phusion/baseimage:0.9.16 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive # Set correct environment variables ENV HOME /root ENV TERM xterm # Use baseimage-docker's init system CMD ["/sbin/my_init"] # output volumes VOLUME /DICOM /DATABASE # expose ports EXPOSE 8080 11112 # Add local files ADD src/ /root/ # Fix a Debianism of the nobody's uid being 65534 RUN usermod -u 99 nobody && \ usermod -g 100 nobody && \ # set temporary installation folder DCM4CHEE_TEMP=/root/temp-setup/dcm4chee && \ mkdir -p $DCM4CHEE_TEMP && \ # install dependencies apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y wget unzip mysql-server openjdk-6-jdk && \ # fetch, unzip and install required packages cd $DCM4CHEE_TEMP && \ wget --directory-prefix=/root http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/files/dcm4chee/2.17.1/dcm4chee-2.17.1-mysql.zip && \ unzip -q /root/dcm4chee-2.17.1-mysql.zip && \ DCM_DIR=$DCM4CHEE_TEMP/dcm4chee-2.17.1-mysql && \ wget --directory-prefix=/root http://colocrossing.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jboss/JBoss/JBoss-4.2.3.GA/jboss-4.2.3.GA-jdk6.zip && \ unzip -q /root/jboss-4.2.3.GA-jdk6.zip && \ JBOSS_DIR=$DCM4CHEE_TEMP/jboss-4.2.3.GA && \ wget --directory-prefix=/root http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/files/dcm4chee-arr/3.0.11/dcm4chee-arr-3.0.11-mysql.zip && \ unzip -q /root/dcm4chee-arr-3.0.11-mysql.zip && \ ARR_DIR=$DCM4CHEE_TEMP/dcm4chee-arr-3.0.11-mysql && \ rm -rf /root/*.zip && \ $DCM_DIR/bin/install_jboss.sh jboss-4.2.3.GA > /dev/null && \ $DCM_DIR/bin/install_arr.sh dcm4chee-arr-3.0.11-mysql > /dev/null && \ # Patch the JPEGImageEncoder issue for the WADO service sed -e "s/value=\"com.sun.media.imageioimpl.plugins.jpeg.CLibJPEGImageWriter\"/value=\"com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder\"/g" < $DCM_DIR/server/default/conf/xmdesc/dcm4chee-wado-xmbean.xml > dcm4chee-wado-xmbean.xml && \ mv dcm4chee-wado-xmbean.xml $DCM_DIR/server/default/conf/xmdesc/dcm4chee-wado-xmbean.xml && \ # Update environment variables echo "\ JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64\n\ PATH=\"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin\"\n\ " > /etc/environment && \ # clean up apt etc.... apt-get clean && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
March 19, 201511 yr Author Dude, you totally rock. My current contract ends in a few months and I will get home to play with this. To test it you can set up a DICOM workstation and get some sample images off the web. I recommend Osirix but it is only MacOS so an alternative is a demo of ClearCanvas.
March 19, 201511 yr Dude, you totally rock. My current contract ends in a few months and I will get home to play with this. To test it you can set up a DICOM workstation and get some sample images off the web. I recommend Osirix but it is only MacOS so an alternative is a demo of ClearCanvas. it still needs modification of the startup scripts in that other docker and a script to check for existing databases and if they don't exist, create them.
March 20, 201511 yr I've put it into my beta repo, it really needs someone who knows this software to take a look at it, I wouldn't even know where to begin with running it. The default password is admin/admin the webui link in dockerman takes you to the "records interface" there is another interface which seems to be for settings etc... at /jmx-console
March 20, 201511 yr The databases and the dcm4chee setup are made inside the image when built on dockerhub. When you run the container locally for the first time, they are copied to local storage. So if anything ever cocks up (or you just want to test it out on dummy data etc...) , if you delete the contents of the database and dicom folders on local storage and restart the container, it takes you back to a virgin install again.
March 20, 201511 yr Author I can't thank you enough. Like I said I can't spare any cycles to look at this until June. Such is the life of a medical imaging consultant who takes contracts away from home.
March 21, 201511 yr I may have to play with this DCM4CHEE docker. The GUI is often the sticking point of many of these open-source PACS. They can be very difficult to use and set up. As you mentioned, Osirix is a terrific alternative. You could always try loading a MacOS VM and load it on there.
March 21, 201511 yr Author Those cost several million dollars and have quarter million dollar yearly maintenance fees to boot.
March 21, 201511 yr I've rebuilt the whole thing again, if you build it from git you can change two variables to select folders for the databases and the dcm4chee files and with the variables i've used everything gets changed automatically. There's also a placeholder output volume called IMAGES in the root. I've also swapped out runit in favour of supervisor, both the database and dcm4chee run as nobody:users, if you take out this section here from the Dockerfile, you take out the unraid specifics and it becomes portable. # Fix a Debianism of the nobody's uid being 65534 RUN usermod -u 99 nobody && \ usermod -g 100 nobody && \ (just remember to add the RUN back in to the next command in the Dockerfile) git here. https://github.com/sparklyballs/pacs
March 22, 201511 yr Those cost several million dollars and have quarter million dollar yearly maintenance fees to boot. I work for the NHS, suspect we buy the cheapest ones available....
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