Are there any DICOM viewer apps for PCLinuxOS, please?

[vc]

Hello - I wish to view my patient data DICOM files in PCLinuxOS MiniMe 10, please.  I've searched this forum for anything applicable, and have Googled as well; the Google search turned up the following prospects:

http://www.orcero.org/irbis/kradview/

http://aeskulap.nongnu.org/

http://www.rtstudents.com/pacs/free-dicom-viewers.htm

Would any of those be suitable, I wonder?

Thank-you....

[Old-Polack]

Hello - I wish to view my patient data DICOM files in PCLinuxOS MiniMe 10, please.  I've searched this forum for anything applicable, and have Googled as well; the Google search turned up the following prospects:

http://www.orcero.org/irbis/kradview/

http://aeskulap.nongnu.org/

http://www.rtstudents.com/pacs/free-dicom-viewers.htm

Would any of those be suitable, I wonder?

Thank-you....

Any of them that specify Unix use. I'd be looking at the java based units, as they are easy to install and usually are cross platform by design. A lot of java based apps can simply be unpacked in a directory in your user space and run directly from that directory.

[Neal ManBear]

vc,
Please read http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,55384.0.html  for directions on how to make a package suggestion.

[Old-Polack]

I'd be happy to build one of the candidates if it get more votes (well.. after I've finished the monster ooo4kids... my machines are red-glowing at the moment :-),

I didn't know you were running an X-Box as your build environment. I'd worry about that red glow, were I you. Bad news, from what I hear. 

[vc]

Gentlemen... I do wish to offer my thanks for your replies.  So far, I have downloaded kradview; however, upon attempting installation ./configure reported:

configure:6484: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

I would wish to attach a copy of the above-mentioned 'config.log' below, as 'config.log.txt'; however, unfortunately the forum attachments do not seem to be successful for me today - reason unknown (although FireFox does seem rather bogged-down at the moment, and is really struggling to keep up with my 'hunt-and-peck' typing.).

My thinking is a bit woozy at the moment... I suppose I should perhaps open up Synaptic, and see what I've got for C++ compiling installed into this particular system?

Java - sounds okay to me, Old-Polack... except I don't recall having ever installed any Java apps directly.  What would be the best way for me to go about doing such, I wonder?

I may be scheduled for a carotid endarterectomy tomorrow, depending on CT scan results... so I'm kind of hoping to be able to have a look at the previous scan results first, if possible.

Many thanks again.

[Old-Polack]

Gentlemen... I do wish to offer my thanks for your replies.  So far, I have downloaded kradview; however, upon attempting installation ./configure reported:

configure:6484: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

I would wish to attach a copy of the above-mentioned 'config.log' below, as 'config.log.txt'; however, unfortunately the forum attachments do not seem to be successful for me today - reason unknown (although FireFox does seem rather bogged-down at the moment, and is really struggling to keep up with my 'hunt-and-peck' typing.).

My thinking is a bit woozy at the moment... I suppose I should perhaps open up Synaptic, and see what I've got for C++ compiling installed into this particular system?

Java - sounds okay to me, Old-Polack... except I don't recall having ever installed any Java apps directly.  What would be the best way for me to go about doing such, I wonder?

I may be scheduled for a carotid endarterectomy tomorrow, depending on CT scan results... so I'm kind of hoping to be able to have a look at the previous scan results first, if possible.

Many thanks again.

Download a package and see what's inside. If it needs to be "installed" it will have instructions provided. Either an installer will be provided, or it will tell you to simply run the application from a specified file in the package. Java apps are neat that way.

[Neal ManBear]

vc,
I posted before with a link to package suggest rules. Read them! You have 3 apps listed. If you are requesting them, please create a separate thread for 2 and leave 1 for this thread. Follow the rules, re links, etc, in creating these threads.

If you intend this thread to be about installing an app not in our repos, it needs to be moved to advanced users section. Let me know, if that is what you want, and I'll move it.

[Old-Polack]

Checking some of the viewers offered in the posted links, one of the viewers mentioned is XnView which is in the repos. Rather than package something else, how about trying that?

[vc]

Checking some of the viewers offered in the posted links, one of the viewers mentioned is XnView which is in the repos. Rather than package something else, how about trying that?

Thank you, Old-Polack - I have just done so, yet with no success, unfortunately (XnView wasn't able to read the files).  ImageMagick is able to open the individual slices, yet of course cannot display them altogether in 3D...

At any rate though, I do not wish to break the forum rules or upset anyone, and I am very tired at this moment... so; I shall either attempt to continue tomorrow, or (as the outcome may be) - not.

[Old-Polack]

Checking some of the viewers offered in the posted links, one of the viewers mentioned is XnView which is in the repos. Rather than package something else, how about trying that?

Thank you, Old-Polack - I have just done so, yet with no success, unfortunately (XnView wasn't able to read the files).  ImageMagick is able to open the individual slices, yet of course cannot display them altogether in 3D...

At any rate though, I do not wish to break the forum rules or upset anyone, and I am very tired at this moment... so; I shall either attempt to continue tomorrow, or (as the outcome may be) - not.

As I can only go by what the site claims, XnView should have no trouble viewing files with extensions dcm, acr, dic, dicom, and dc3, as well as 400 others, but those are the listed ones for DICOM. The repos have the latest current stable viewer, as well as the newest beta, available since March 30. Have you tried both?

[vc]

As I can only go by what the site claims, XnView should have no trouble viewing files with extensions dcm, acr, dic, dicom, and dc3, as well as 400 others, but those are the listed ones for DICOM. The repos have the latest current stable viewer, as well as the newest beta, available since March 30. Have you tried both?

Hello.  Bad news, unfortunately - it seems I've survived.  I'm back at home now, recuperating, kicking around the house, cursing at computers... I managed to completely mangle my main KDE installation today so far, and my little EeePC is not doing so well now either.  I'll be beating on both of those shortly.

To answer your question though, Old-Polack:  oddly enough, none of the DICOM files they gave to me have any extension at all - there are simply several score of them sitting in a directory named /DICOM, on the CDs; they're all numbered sequentially, starting at "1", and there are no extensions.  Each individual file may be opened successfully in ImageMagick; it seems to 'recognise' them as DICOM files, although no other app does - and so far I do not yet understand how they may be viewed together properly as a set, to form a complete 3D model, as intended.

Please refer to the attached below, which indicates the files and directories found on one of the CDs (as well as depicting my current KDE4 problem):

[Neal ManBear]

vc,
I'm glad you made it back. Don't know what it will take, but we'll try to get this figured out.

[vc]

Thank you, Neal - I am glad to be able to continue my attempts to learn something of PCLinuxOS as well.  Perhaps I may yet break down and simply attempt to run the included Windows viewer app in wine instead, athough I rather do remain hopeful for a proper linux solution instead as there are many other besides myself who may be able to make use of such also (such as doctors, for instance, in countries where linux usage may be more prevalent, or else Government-mandated.).

[Neal ManBear]

In my searching, I came across this --
http://linuxmednews.com/1266832139

Not very encouraging, but that only means we need to try harder. The fact that ImageMagick can view the individual files is a hopeful sign. Don't know how to get it done yet, but tomorrow hasn't happened yet.

[vc]

In my searching, I came across this --
http://linuxmednews.com/1266832139

Not very encouraging, but that only means we need to try harder. The fact that ImageMagick can view the individual files is a hopeful sign. Don't know how to get it done yet, but tomorrow hasn't happened yet.

Your searchings seem to have been more successful than mine ever have, though - I am surprised at the very existence of a "linuxmednews.com" website, for instance.  Nevertheless, you've found it and I do thank you, although you are certainly correct in that it does not yet seem a very promising sort of situation.  I believe things like this to be very important towards the more widespread adoption of linux world-wide, and am wondering why the linux community has not yet developed such, for the need is very clear.