About The Project

The DICOM standard is ready for any developer in the orthodontic community to implement. However, it can be complicated and implementation can be time consuming. The DICOM standard is also does not contain an explicit explanation on orthodntic photographs, allowing the developer too much freedom.

This is why we decided to implement ANSI Standard ADA-1107, which defines exactly how to use DICOM to encode orthodontic photographs.

We want to create a proof of concept to demonstrate how to properly store orthodontic visible light images (aka photographs) using DICOM, while ensuring all codes (necessary to uniquely identify each image type) are in the proper place.

Here’s why:

  • Your time should be focused on creating something amazing.

  • Being able to import and export DICOM images to and from your orthodontic software will open doors to you and the orthodontic provider.

  • No one software will serve all orthodontic providers completely. Adding interoperability will allow your product to integrate with others, giving additional value to your solution.

You may suggest changes by forking this repo and creating a pull request or opening an issue. Thanks to all the people have have contributed to this project!

A list of commonly used resources that we find helpful are listed in the acknowledgements.

Feature Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

v0

  • Load single PNG/JPG file

  • Manually set metadata from filename, or hard code

v1

  • Load entire directory, for batch conversion

  • Load metadata from filename, like the files of the linedrawings, using our abbreviations.

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

  1. Fork the Project

  2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)

  3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')

  4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)

  5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Toni Magni- [@zgypa](https://twitter.com/zgypa) - open-ortho@afm.co

Project Link: https://open-ortho.github.io

Resources

Required for testing currently: dicom3tools, in particular dciodvfy binary.

Acknowledgements