FlexView vs. OHIF: A Comprehensive Comparison
By Rob Lewis, CEO, Radical Imaging Sometimes when introducing FlexView, our new SaaS viewer product, I am asked if it’s basically just OHIF. The answer is a resounding, “NO!” FlexView is a commercial product that addresses needs that open-source OHIF can’t. Although FlexView isn’t free, it offers a number of key benefits that we’ll cover in the…
Read MoreSimplifying Medical Imaging with FlexView™
This is the first in a series of posts about FlexView, Radical Imaging’s Viewer-as-a-Service In the early days of medical imaging, all of the tech went into big, complex machines that spat out translucent film to be viewed on a light box and annotated by a radiologist with a grease pencil. Then in the 80’s…
Read MoreHow We Reduce Risk in Our Software Projects
By Rob Lewis, CEO, Radical Imaging “How much will it cost” and “when will it be done”? Sometimes potential clients ask us these questions even before we have a basic understanding of what their software project is supposed to accomplish. How could they expect us to estimate the effort required without first knowing what we…
Read MoreThree New Things You Can Now Do Using OHIF v3
By Rob Lewis, CEO, Radical Imaging Introduction The Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) platform is now in its third iteration, which is nearing completion and will soon be available as a stable version. This update adds a number of new features for application developers that can greatly improve the overall image viewer experience. This post will talk…
Read MoreCornerstone3D and Cornerstone3DTools: 5 New Segmentation Tools
The newly released Cornerstone3D and its accompanying library, Cornerstone3DTools, provides a set of tools to modify segmentations of medical images viewed in web browsers. All of the segmentation tools can edit a segmentation in axial, coronal, and sagittal views. In this blog post, we’ll cover five of the new segmentation tools: brush tool, rectangle scissor tool, circle scissor…
Read MoreHow to Choose a Web-Based DICOM Viewer
A Brief Overview of Medical Image Viewers Medical images are generally stored in a DICOM file format. This file format contains important information about the image, such as the type of image, the patient’s name, and other relevant data. We can categorize the medical image viewers into two groups: Desktop and Web. The Desktop viewers…
Read More3 Medical Imaging Tasks You Can Now Achieve Using Cornerstone3D and Cornerstone3DTools
Cornerstone3D, released in April 2022, is a new JavaScript library that enables visualization and manipulation of medical images on the web. Compared to the previous version of Cornerstone.js, Cornerstone3D is a major rewrite of the library that takes advantage of GPU acceleration to improve performance and reduce the memory footprint for the visualization of large medical…
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