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Article
| Title | Dicoogle - an Open Source Peer-to-Peer PACS |
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| Author | Carlos Costa, Carlos Viana Ferreira, Luís Bastião Silva, Luis Ribeiro, Augusto Silva, José Luís Oliveira |
| Journal | Journal of Digital Imaging |
| Volume | 24 |
| Number | 5 |
| Pages | 848-856 |
| Month | October |
| Year | 2011 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10278-010-9347-9 |
| Group | |
| Group (before 2015) | Information Systems and Telematics Laboratory, Signal Processing Laboratory |
| Indexed by ISI | Yes |
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have been widely deployed in healthcare institutions, and they now constitute a normal commodity for practitioners. However, its installation, maintenance, and utilization are still a burden due to their heavy structures, typically supported by centralized computational solutions. In this paper, we present Dicoogle, a PACS archive supported by a document-based indexing system and by peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols. Replacing the traditional database storage (RDBMS) by a documental organization permits gathering and indexing data from file-based repositories, which allows searching the archive through free text queries. As a direct result of this strategy, more information can be extracted from medical imaging repositories, which clearly increases flexibility when compared with current query and retrieval DICOM services. The inclusion of P2P features allows PACS internetworking without the need for a central management framework. Moreover, Dicoogle is easy to install, manage, and use, and it maintains full interoperability with standard DICOM services.