Viewing Medical Images with MirrorMed

From MirrorMed

The document management system for MirrorMed is format agnostic. It does not care if you save graphics files, or word documents, or pdf files. Its simply a file that is "owned" by the patient.

If you want to view DICOM images you can try Aeskulap. In theory, if you had the MIME type in your browser set correctly you could get a DICOM image in MirrorMed to automatically open in Aeskulap. To do that you need to get Aeskulap installed on your version of GNU/Linux.

First you need to download the packages that Aeskulap is dependant on. The [Aeskulap Download page has a list of dependencies. These are copied from that page..

gtk >= 2.6.0 
gtkmm >= 2.6.0
libglademm >= 2.6.0
gconfmm >= 2.10.0

I use the yumex package updating system. It give a since clean display of packages that are available and allows you to download and install them. I suggest you use yumex, or the equivilant package manager on your system. Use Yumex (or whatever) to download the packages listed above. Once that is done download the Aeskulap tar file and type...

tar -xzvf aeskulap-0.2.1.tar.gz

which will untar the file. Use your regular user account for this NOT ROOT. (Remember you might have a different file name). Then change directory to the aeskulap directory.

 cd aeskulap-0.2.1/

(Remmeber directory names change with versions too) Then perform a standard unix install.

./configure

This might return an error and tell you that you need more dependancies, if so use your package manager to download them and type ./configure again. Then compile the program with 

make

Then change users to root and install the program

su 
make install

Now you should be able to type

aeskulap 

On the command line and see the program work... at least it did for me.