dicom-microscopy-viewer

DICOM Microscopy Viewer

Vanilla JS library for web-based visualization of DICOM VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image datasets and derived information.

The viewer allows visualization of slide microscopy images stored in a DICOMweb compatible archive. It leverages the dicomweb-client JavaScript library to retrieve data from the archive.

Features

• Display of different image types: VOLUME/THUMBNAIL, OVERVIEW, LABEL
• Annotation of regions of interest (ROI) as vector graphics based on 3-dimensional spatial coordinates (SCOORD3D): POINT, MULTIPOINT, POLYLINE, POLYGON, ELLIPSE, ELLIPSOID
• Assembly of concatenations
• Decoding of compressed pixel data, supporting baseline JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG-LS codecs
• Correction of color images using ICC profiles
• Additive blending and coloring of monochromatic images of multiple optical paths (channels), supporting highly-multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging
• Overlay of image analysis results in the form of DICOM Segmentation, Parametric Map, Comprehensive 3D SR, or Microscopy Bulk Simple Annotations

Documentation

Documentation of the JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API) is available online at herrmannlab.github.io/dicom-microscopy-viewer.

Getting started

Note that the dicom-microscopy-viewer package is not a viewer application, it is a library to build viewer applications. Below is an example for the most basic usage: a web page that displays a collection of DICOM VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image instances of a digital slide. For more advanced usage, take a look at the Slim viewer.

Basic usage

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/dicom-microscopy-viewer"></script>

The viewer can be embedded in any website, one only needs to

• Create an instance of the viewer.VolumeViewer. The constructor requires an instance of DICOMwebClient for retrieving frames from the archive as well as the metadata for each DICOM image instance formatted according to the DICOM JSON Model.

• Call the render() method, passing it the HTML element (or the name of the element), which shall contain the viewport.

const url = 'http://localhost:8080/dicomweb';
const client = new DICOMwebClient.api.DICOMwebClient({url});
const studyInstanceUID = '1.2.3.4';
const seriesInstanceUID = '1.2.3.5';
const searchInstanceOptions = {
  studyInstanceUID,
  seriesInstanceUID
};
client.searchForInstances(searchInstanceOptions).then((instances) => {
  const promises = []
  for (let i = 0; i < instances.length; i++) {
    const sopInstanceUID = instances[i]["00080018"]["Value"][0];
    const retrieveInstanceOptions = {
      studyInstanceUID,
      seriesInstanceUID,
      sopInstanceUID,
    };
    const promise = client.retrieveInstanceMetadata(retrieveInstanceOptions).then(metadata => {
      const image = new DICOMMicroscopyViewer.metadata.VLWholeSlideMicroscopyViewer({
          metadata
      })
      if (image.imageType[2] === "VOLUME") {
        return(image);
      }
    });
    promises.push(promise);
  }
  return(Promise.all(promises));
}).then(metadata => {
  metadata = metadata.filter(m => m);
  const viewer = new DICOMMicroscopyViewer.viewer.VolumeViewer({
    client,
    metadata
  });
  viewer.render({container: 'viewport'});
});

Citation

Please cite the following article when using the viewer for scientific studies: Herrmann et al. J Path Inform. 2018:

@article{jpathinform-2018-9-37,
    Author={
        Herrmann, M. D. and Clunie, D. A. and Fedorov A. and Doyle, S. W. and Pieper, S. and
        Klepeis, V. and Le, L. P. and Mutter, G. L. and Milstone, D. S. and Schultz, T. J. and
        Kikinis, R. and Kotecha, G. K. and Hwang, D. H. and Andriole, K, P. and Iafrate, A. J. and
        Brink, J. A. and Boland, G. W. and Dreyer, K. J. and Michalski, M. and
        Golden, J. A. and Louis, D. N. and Lennerz, J. K.
    },
    Title={Implementing the {DICOM} standard for digital pathology},
    Journal={Journal of Pathology Informatics},
    Year={2018},
    Number={1},
    Volume={9},
    Number={37}
}

Installation

Install the dicom-microscopy-viewer package using the npm package manager:

npm install dicom-microscopy-viewer

Building & Testing

We use webpack for bundling and Jest for testing.

Build:

npm install
npm run build

Test:

npm run test

Build the documentation:

npm run generateDocs

Support

The developers gratefully acknowledge their reseach support:

• Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF)
• Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR)
• Radiomics
• Imaging Data Commons (IDC)
• Neuroimage Analysis Center
• National Center for Image Guided Therapy
• MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS)