Leadtools.Dicom.Web Introduction

The LEADTOOLS Web Viewer Framework Module enables programmers to quickly build high-quality, full-featured, web-based medical image viewer applications.

It includes WCF components and services that enable you to implement high-level interfaces for distributing medical studies from a server to web clients, even with very limited knowledge of web hosting and web service development. This is ideal for web-based solutions like querying patient studies and viewing images from remote computers using Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The plug-in capable design also allows developers to use the framework for non-DICOM images or binary data transfer, and to extend an implemented web service to include application-specific data transfer and communication capabilities.  

Leadtools.Dicom.Web provides classes and methods to stream information from the DICOM WCF service and initialize the Medical Viewer control.

The Rich Client Web Viewer WinForm control includes:

• Tools most commonly used in radiology applications, like window level, rotate, flip, and invert

• Synchronized scrolling, zooming and panning.

• Image markup and annotation.

• Measurement and region processing tools.

• Options for low-memory usage in large-study viewing.

• Signed and unsigned display for extended grayscale images typical of medical applications.

• Multiple display layouts, including stack, cine and series view.

• Printing to Windows printers.

WCF Servicesprovide/enable you to:

• Addresses and Interfaces to manage, store, query and Retrieve DICOM data sets, image sets or thumbnails.

• Upload single DICOM file or a set from DICOM media using DICOM DIR.

• Query for patient, study and series.

• Get DICOM tags only.

• Get full DICOM files with all image information.

• Get full resolution image or a thumbnail representation.

• Perform Multi-threaded background image streaming to enhance performance.

• Support Thin Client and Rich Client implementations.

• Dynamically remove or add plug-in services as needed.