pyorthanc 1.11.2

Orthanc REST API python wrapper with additional utilities

PyOrthanc

Python library that wraps the Orthanc REST API and facilitates the manipulation of data with several cool utilities.

Breaking changes

PyOrthanc has been rewritten almost entirely from 0.*.*. The new Orthanc client is now automatically generated from https://api.orthanc-server.com/. The version *.*. of PyOrthanc will follow Orthanc version (e.g. pyorthanc 1.11.* is generated from the API specification of Orthanc 1.11.*).

This means that the method names of the Orthanc objects from PyOrthanc 0.* are no longer the same. You can still use the old client with

from pyorthanc.deprecated.client import Orthanc

Note that due to automatic generation some method names may be less clear. However, the automatic generation allows PyOrthanc to cover all the routes of the API of Orthanc.

Installation

$ pip install pyorthanc

Example of usage

Be sure that Orthanc is running. The default URL (if running locally) is http://localhost:8042.

Getting access to patients, studies, series and instances information:

from pyorthanc import Orthanc

orthanc = Orthanc('http://localhost:8042', username='username', password='password')

# To get patients identifier and main information
patients_identifiers = orthanc.get_patients()

for patient_identifier in patients_identifiers:
   # To get patient information
   patient_info = orthanc.get_patients_id(patient_identifier)

   patient_name = patient_info['MainDicomTags']['PatientName']
   ...
   study_identifiers = patient_info['Studies']

# To get patient's studies identifier and main information
for study_identifier in study_identifiers:
   # To get Study info
   study_info = orthanc.get_studies_id(study_identifier)

   study_date = study_info['MainDicomTags']['StudyDate']
   ...
   series_identifiers = study_info['Series']

# To get study's series identifier and main information
for series_identifier in series_identifiers:
   # Get series info
   series_info = orthanc.get_series_id(series_identifier)

   modality = series_info['MainDicomTags']['Modality']
   ...
   instance_identifiers = series_info['Instances']

# and so on ...
for instance_identifier in instance_identifiers:
   instance_info = orthanc.get_instances_id(instance_identifier)
   ...

Find patients with certain characteristics in an Orthanc instance:

Each patient is a tree. Layers in each tree have the following structure Patient -> Study -> Series -> Instance that correspond to the provided filter functions.

from pyorthanc import find

patients = find(
    orthanc_url='http://localhost:8042/',
    auth=('username', 'password'),
    series_filter=lambda s: s.modality == 'RTDOSE'  # Optional: filter with pyorthanc.Series object
)

for patient in patients:
   patient_info = patient.get_main_information()
   patient.id_   # Access PatientID
   patient.name  # Access PatientName
   
   patient.get_zip() # DICOM files' content in bytes
   
   anonymized_patient_1 = patient.anonymize()  # New patient that was anonymized by Orthanc
   anonymized_patient_2 = patient.anonymize(
      keep=['PatientName'],   # You can keep/remove/replace the DICOM tags you want
      replace={'PatientID': 'TheNewPatientID'},
      remove=['ReferringPhysicianName'],
      force=True  # Needed when changing PatientID/StudyInstanceUID/SeriesInstanceUID/SOPInstanceUID
   )  
   ...

   for study in patient.studies:
      study.date  # Date as a datetime object
      study.referring_physician_name
      ...

      for series in study.series:
         series.modality  # Should be 'RTDOSE' because of the series_filter parameters
         ...

Upload DICOM files to Orthanc:

from pyorthanc import Orthanc

orthanc = Orthanc('http://localhost:8042', 'username', 'password')

with open('A_DICOM_INSTANCE_PATH.dcm', 'rb') as file:
   orthanc.post_instances(file.read())

Getting list of connected remote modalities:

from pyorthanc import Orthanc

orthanc = Orthanc('http://localhost:8042', 'username', 'password')

orthanc.get_modalities()

Query (C-Find) and Retrieve (C-Move) from remote modality:

from pyorthanc import RemoteModality, Orthanc

orthanc = Orthanc('http://localhost:8042', 'username', 'password')

modality = RemoteModality(orthanc, 'modality')

# Query (C-Find) on modality
data = {'Level': 'Study', 'Query': {'PatientID': '*'}}
query_response = modality.query(data=data)

answer = modality.get_query_answers()[query_response['ID']]
print(answer)

# Retrieve (C-Move) results of query on a target modality (AET)
modality.move(query_response['ID'], {'TargetAet': 'target_modality'})

Anonymize patient:

from pyorthanc import Orthanc, Patient

orthanc = Orthanc('http://localhost:8042', 'username', 'password')

patient_identifier = orthanc.get_patients()[0]

anonymized_patient = Patient(patient_identifier, orthanc).anonymize(
    keep=['PatientName'],   # You can keep/remove/replace the DICOM tags you want
    replace={'PatientID': 'TheNewPatientID'},
    remove=['ReferringPhysicianName'],
    force=True  # Needed when changing PatientID/StudyInstanceUID/SeriesInstanceUID/SOPInstanceUID
)
# Or directly with
orthanc.post_patients_id_anonymize(patient_identifier)

# result is: (you can retrieve DICOM file from ID)
# {'ID': 'dd41f2f1-24838e1e-f01746fc-9715072f-189eb0a2',
#  'Path': '/patients/dd41f2f1-24838e1e-f01746fc-9715072f-189eb0a2',
#  'PatientID': 'dd41f2f1-24838e1e-f01746fc-9715072f-189eb0a2',
#  'Type': 'Patient'}

Citation

If you publish using PyOrthanc, we kindly ask that you credit us. PyOrthanc can be found on Zenodo : https://zenodo.org/record/7086219 .

Contributing

You can contribute to this project with the following steps:

1. First, fork the project on Github
2. Clone the project

   git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/pyorthanc
   cd pyorthanc
   

3. Enter the project and create a poetry environment (this project use the poetry for dependency management)

   peotry install 
   

4. Make a new git branch where you will apply the changes

   git checkout -b your-branch-name
   

   Now you can make your changes
5. Once done, git add, git commit and git push the changes.
6. Make a Pull Request from your branch to the https://github.com/ulaval-rs/pyorthanc.