Does anybody know of free software solutions in the field of MRI/cat/radiology scanning/diagnostics? Most of India's hospitals use imported hardware/software to do this medical diagnostic work and most of the time the machines and technologies used are really outdated and unnecessarily monopolised due to the licence raj of the govt which pushes up costs to the consumer.
Thanks Kussh
--- Kussh Singh kussh.singh@gmail.com wrote:
Does anybody know of free software solutions in the field of MRI/cat/radiology scanning/diagnostics? Most of India's hospitals use imported hardware/software to do this medical diagnostic work and most of the time the machines and technologies used are really outdated and unnecessarily monopolised due to the licence raj of the govt which pushes up
Free Software requires a special thrust on medical informatics. We need lot of catching up todo. Surprisingly the most of the medical informatics revolves round two well documented standards dicom and hl7. Still free software presence is not much.
Following links may through some light a.For dicom image viewers and related http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/dicom.html#links b.debian med project at debian.org
c.general link to medical related projects http://www.minoru-development.com/en/healthlinks.html
There is huge potential in developing software which interface the medical equipments like auto-analysers used in clinical testing.
On a related note one of the member of ILUG, Chennai has started a project called gmedcon at sourceforege(http://gmedcon.sf.net). This aims to improve existing dicom viewer xmedcon to gtk2 with features a cardiologist will require.He needs help in coding.
Raman.P
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