dcm4che is an open source collection of applications for digital medical imaging.
dcm4che is a collection of open source applications and utilities for the healthcare enterprise, specially focused to solve processing, archiving, transmission and interoperability of medical imaging data. dcm4che tools have been developed in the Java for performance and portability, supporting deployment on JDK 1.4 and up.
This can also refer to the dcm4chee project, a full dicom Clinical Data Manager system built upon the dcm4che tools. It is a JEE and JMX system designed to be deployed within the jboss Application Server to provide a number of clinical services.
It may be used for a variety of different purposes, the most popular being a PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System).
Resources
- Official site
- Source code for dcm4che. Last version is 3.3.7
- Source code for dcm4chee latest stable 2.x version and last beta 4.x version, a complete rewrite.