Top 11 Free Linux DICOM Viewers for Doctors
DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine and it is the international open image format for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical images.
Medical images are used in the identification and examination of physical injuries and diseases via procedures like Xrays, CT scans, etc.
This article lists the best free Linux applications used for processing images generated by DICOM devices.
1. Amide
Amide is a cross-platform GTK+ tool for viewing, registering, and analyzing volumetric medical imaging data sets. It uses a GUI with a long feature list including loading multiple data sets at once, generating fly through movies as MPEG1 files, an anisotropic filtering wizard, thresholding datasets independently and in bulk, etc.
AMIDE – Medical Imaging Data Examiner
2. DicomBrowser
DicomBrowser is an open source Java-based DICOM metadata inspector and modifier app. It was developed by the Neuroinformatics Research Group of Washington University to be excellent at batch anonymizations.
It is cross-platform, can simultaneously load thousands of images, and also features a command line interface to the anonymization script engine.
DicomBrowser – Viewing and Modifying DICOM Metadata
3. 3DimViewer
3DimViewer is a cross-platform lightweight 3D viewer for DICOM datasets written in C++. It is open source with a feature set that includes orthogonal and multiplanar XY, XZ, and YZ views, an adjustable density window, importing multiple DICOM datasets, 3D visualization of CT and MRI scans, surface modelling of any segmented tissue, 3D surface rendering, etc.
3DimViewer- 3D Viewer of Medical DICOM
4. dcm4che
Unlike the other titles on this list, dcm4che is a Java-based suite of high-performance applications collected for the healthcare enterprise and it is used worldwide by researchers and in both open source and commercial applications.
dcm4che enables you to store any DICOM object type in standard file systems with full support for Client/Server PACS model, DICOM IOD’s, multiple platforms, and several IHE integration profiles.
Its features also include a web-based GUI for administrators, an integrated HL7 server which can act on ADT, ORU, and ORM message types among others.
DCM4Che – A Collection of Apps for Healthcare IT
5. XMedcon
XMedcon is an open source medical image conversion toolkit and library developed mainly for converting reconstructed nuclear medical images.
You can use it to read unsupported files without compression, retrieve the raw binary/ASCII image arrays, to print pixel values, to write PNG for desktop applications, and to extract/reorder specified images among other functions.
XMedcon – Medical Image Conversion Toolkit
6. Aeskulap
Aeskulap is a medical image viewer that was created to be an open source alternative to commercial DICOM viewers and is based on glademm, gtkmm, and gconfmm.
It can load a series of DICOM images for review and can also fetch them from archive nodes (aka PACS) over the network.
Aeskulap – DICOM Image Viewer
7. Mango
Mango stands for Multi-image Analysis GUI and it provides tools for image analysis coupled with a convenient GUI for navigation.
It can be used for ROI editing, image stacking, statistical analysis, surface rendering, etc. You can also customize filters, colour tables, file formats, work with plugins, and analyse other image formats such as MINC, NEMA-DES, NIFTI and NIFTI2.
Mango – Multi-image Analysis GUI
8. 3D Slicer
3D Slicer is a feature-rich multi-platform integrated application for processing images, medical image informatics, and 3D visualization intended for clinical researchers, physicians, and computer scientists.
You can use 3D slicer for sophisticated manual editing, automatic segmentation, analysing and visualizing diffusion tensor imaging data, reading and writing DICOM images and other formats, batch processing using EMSegment BatchMake e.t.c filtration, among many other functions.
3D Slicer – Image Analysis and Scientific Visualization
9. SMILI
SMILI (pronounced ‘smilie’) is an open source lightweight and cross-platform library containing a set of classes for building medical image processing and scientific visualization applications.
It features both a simple GUI and a CLI with standard processing algorithms for smoothing, thresholding, masking etc. images and models.
SMILI – Simple Medical Imaging Library Interface
10. openDICOM.NET
openDICOM.NEt is a project that implements a completely new approach to DICOM libraries. It is written in C# and includes opendicom-utils for working with data dictionaries in different formats.
Its features include a tree view of ACR-NEMA and DICOM content, support of ACR-NEMA and DICOM images export to different image formats, image view with single and multiple frame support, image slide cycling known as movie mode, full DICOM 2007 data and UID dictionaries, etc.
11. Kradview
Kradview is an NMR, DICOM, and X-ray-compatible imaging device built for Unix-like platforms. Its purpose is to make rendering DICOM images easier irrespective of their size and zoom level.
It was initially developed by David Santo Orcero as part of his PhD project and has been updated by David del Rio Medina to have a better rendering performance.
Kradview – X-ray Image Viewer
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Top 20 FREE DICOM Viewers for doctors: Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
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DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information. The Following is a list of the best free DICOM viewers for doctors.
We have covered several categories for DICOM viewers, here what we covered so far:
Free Online Web-based DICOM viewers are online cloud services that display upload or remote DICOM files or folders with DICOM specific browser. Here is a compiled list of cloud DICOM viewers.
In this article we have covered the best free and open source DICOM viewers for many platforms. This list is always updated with emerging and new software regularly, so stay tuned.
Free & Open source enterprise-grade DICOM viewers
1- Navegatium DICOM Viewer
Incredibly easy to use, Navegatium has an absolutely intuitive touchscreen interface, works perfectly on Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 tablets, laptops and PCs and can be installed directly from Windows Store. It makes out list of Best Free & Open source PACS Clients & DICOM Workstations, because of its outstanding features.
It is capable of 2D, 3D and X-Ray reconstructions with DICOM images.
We have written a snap preview about Nevegatium, you can read it here.
2- Sante DICOM Viewer Free version
Sante DICOM Viewer Free can be used as a stand-alone desktop application, but also it is suitable for DICOM CD/DVD distribution. It runs from CD/DVD without installation, it does not have any additional software requirements like .NET or Java run-time libraries, and opens automatically the DICOMDIR file in the root of the CD/DVD.
Sante DICOM Viewer Free
Sante DICOM Viewer Free supports all the modalities (CT, MR, US, CR, NM, XA, MG, DX etc.), all the manufacturers, and all the DICOM file types (DICOM 3.0/NEMA 2).
3- MicroDicom: Free DICOM Viewer for Windows
MicroDicom is an application for primary processing and preservation of medical images in DICOM format.
It is equipped with most common tools for manipulation of DICOM images and it has an intuitive user interface. It is free for non-commercial use.
4- Horos DICOM Project: Open source DICOM viewer for Mac OSX
Horos is a free, open source medical image viewer. The goal of the Horos Project is to develop a fully functional, 64-bit medical image viewer for OS X. Horos is based upon OsiriX and other open source medical imaging libraries. Horos is made available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 (LGPL-3.0).
Horos has been featured several times in our list reviews:
5- JiveX DICOM Viewer
This free DICOM Viewer offers not only to review radiology images but also other types of medical data such as ECGs or information in pdf files – as long as the data is available in DICOM format. Thus the DICOM Viewer provides all users with access to important information far beyond radiology.
Data can be loaded onto the Viewer from an internal folder or from external media such as CD, DVD or stick. Unlike the licensed Review Client the free DICOM Viewer cannot be linked to the PACS. Technical service is not included.
It is available for non-commercial use (research or educational purposes).
6- AMIDE: Open source Multi-platform DICOM workstation for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX
AMIDE is a completely free and open source tool for viewing, analyzing, and registering volumetric medical imaging data sets.
AMIN DICOM src
- Platform: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows
- AMIDE DICOM viewer website
7- 3DimViewer
3DimViewer is a lightweight free and opensource 3D viewer of medical DICOM datasets that is distributed as open source software.
3DimViewer — src
- Platform: Linux, Mac OSX , Windows
- 3DimViewer Link
8- postDICOM
postDICOM is a secure environment for patients, doctors, clinics and hospitals. Using postDICOM, users can Post medical DICOM images (computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, digital radiography etc.) and clinical documents (scanned documents, reports, patient’s history etc.) to cloud. Later, users can view and share these documents with doctors and medical groups. Uploaded DICOM files are streamed using sophisticated HTML5 zero footprint lossless DICOM viewer.
- Platform: Cloud-based
- postDICOM
9- SMILI DICOM viewer
The Simple Medical Imaging Library Interface (SMILI), is an open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use medical imaging viewer and library for all major operating systems. The main sMILX application features for viewing n-D images, vector images, DICOMs, anonymizing, shape analysis and models/surfaces with easy drag and drop functions. It also features a number of standard processing algorithms for smoothing, thresholding, masking etc. images and models, both with graphical user interfaces and/or via the command-line. SMILI is in active development by his developers.
SMILI DICOM viewer
- Platform: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows
- Website, Download
10- Mango
Mango – short for Multi-image Analysis GUI – is a viewer for medical research images. It provides analysis tools and a user interface to navigate image volumes.
Mango is available for use, as is, free of charge, for educational and scientific, non-commercial purposes. Mongo also made it in our featured list as one of the : Best Free & Open source PACS Clients & DICOM Workstations for Windows, Mac OSX, & Linux.
11 — Aeskulap
Aeskulap is a very famous DICOM mmanager/ and viewer on Ubuntu/ Debian linux.
Platform : Linux
12 — NextCloud : Cloud based DICOM Viewer
NextCloud is a free opensource self-hosted cloud file sharing solution, It provides security, solid user management and set of desktop and mobile clients which support synchronisation. NextCloud AppStore has DICOM viewer which is full featured DICOM viewer ready to work for teams and hospitals.
Platforms
- Server : Linux, Clients : Mac OSX, Windows, Linux. Mobile Apps Android and iPhone, web browsers desktop and mobile.
13 — Athena DICOM Viewer
Athena is a lightweight DICOM software, designed to display DICOM images on Windows machines. It’s available in the Windows app store and offers an in-app purchase for additional options an features. Athena has a very simple custom design built for touch screens including Windows Tablets and wide resolution touch screens. Athena Lite edition comes with one month free for Athena pro editions which can be extended later with purchase. Athena was built by native windows technology so it’s expected to be memory wise with smooth performance.
14 — ClearCanvas DICOM server and DICOM Viewer
ClearCanvas is an open source medical imaging project featuring DICOM server and features-rich DICOM viewer for Windows with DICOM viewer.
ClearCanvas DICOM
- Platform : Windows , Web viewer
- ClearCanvas Website , ClearCanvas Sourceforge
15- MatrixUser
MatrixUser is a lightweight GUI-based program for multi-dimensional data processing and analysis for medical imaging.
- Highly Interactive Graphical User Interface
- Multi-dimensional Matrix Display and Analysis in Matlab
- Multiple Data Type Conversion for DICOM, DICOM (Batch), NIFTI, MAT and Binary
- Nice DICOM Viewer and Convertor
- ROI Analysis, Segmentation, 3D Slicer and More Functions
16- Miele-LXIV: Open source DICOM Workstation for MacOSX
Miele-LXIV is an open source DICOM workstation and viewer for Mac OSX, It’s completely native solution built by apple technologies, It supports 10.9 macOSX version and later, which means it’ll work on old Mac OSX machines.
Miele-LXIV has many features that we have covered in this review.
17- SIVIC: Open source DICOM MR Spectroscopy Framework for Researchers, and Radiologists
SIVIC is a customised DICOM MR Spectroscopy framework for researchers and radiologists, created by Nelson Lab.
18- Gimias: Medical Imaging Framework/ Simulation
Gimias: is an open source framework for building medical Imaging & medical simulation applications for Windows and Linux
19- Yakami DICOM tools:
YAKAMI DICOM tools is a free lightweight DICOM viewer, & converter for Windows, we have reviewed it here.
Highlights
- Lightweight
- Easy to install, & use
- Works smoothly on old and new machines/ systems
- Suitable for novice users, & advanced users
- Supported languages: English, Japanese
20- Navegatium: (Windows)
Navegatium is a Free 2D/3D DICOM Viewer with 3D Printing support for Windows. It’s full-featured DICOM viewer and PACS workstation for Windows, it supports Windows 7 and later.
Navegatium comes with full touch support for Windows-tablets, We have written a full review about it in here.
Highlights:
- DICOM / PACS Client
- 3D Printing on demand
- 3D Volume rendering
- Reports generation
- Navegatium Knowledge Base: Huge library of DICOM images
Navegatium’s Homepage
21- JimboDICOMViewer
JimboDICOMViewer is a free 2D/ 3D DICOM viewer to display and manage DICOM datasets and databases. It has unique features, but it’s available only for Linux and macOS.
Hospital Information Systems (HIS)/ EMR with DICOM viewer
Some Hospital Information systems are built with DICOM viewer to ensure the usability for DICOM files. Here is a list of free open source hospital information systems some comes with complete DICOM and PACS integration.
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