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idoimaging.com started as a personal project to collect
information on free imaging software I could use in my daily work as a
programmer in radiology. I have a couple of open source imaging
projects that I have released, use many others, and was having trouble
keeping up to date with new programs and releases.
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Once I started collecting links, new uses kept suggesting themselves.
By categorizing the programs, they became searchable through a MySQL
database. This also lets me test links every week, so I can keep them
up to date - trying to stay ahead of the lists of '404 Not Found'
links. Automated software tests for new releases every week, so I can
track the latest versions.
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I've now found over 250 free medical imaging projects, ranging from
single-task utilities to complete packages. Most months I find about
one new project, one or two that have changed their address, and five or so
new version releases.
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In the spirit of open source, I've used only free software in this
site. All the pages are generated by Perl CGI scripts (this page and
the home page are the only static HTML). The back end is a MySQL
database and the HTML is generated using the Perl CGI module.
Graphics are generated using the Gimp, and the site is hosted on a
Linux machine running the Apache server.
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I'd like to hear from other imaging and radiology programmers, with
comments or suggestions about this site, the software, or the
radiology developer's community generally.
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Regards,
Andrew Crabb
andy@idoimaging.com
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