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Funding Orthanc through Open Collective

February 8th, 2022

We are launching an Open Collective project to financially support the development and maintenance of Orthanc. Get the full story !


3D-printing the "Orthanc" mask extension

June 8th, 2020

This is very unusual community contribution that might prove useful in these COVID-19 times!


Creating plugins in Python

April 1st, 2020

As part of our efforts to support the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, we today announce the release of the first version of the Python plugin for Orthanc! This plugin can be of great help to anyone wishing to automate her imaging workflow, to design/train new machine learning algorithms, or to deploy AI systems directly in clinical setups. Given the huge need for medical imaging in order to cope with COVID-19, we hope this contribution will prove to be helpful.


MySQL and MariaDB support

July 17th, 2018

Today, we are excited to announce that the Orthanc project officially supports the highly popular MySQL and MariaDB databases through dedicated, free and open-source plugins! This new development expands the functional scope of Orthanc even more, as a large number of PACS administrators in hospitals are more familiar with these database engines than with PostgreSQL. This is a nice milestone, just 2 days before Orthanc celebrates its 6th birthday!


Orthanc Turns 5, New Release Available

July 19th, 2017

Exactly five years ago, on July 19th, 2012, Orthanc was publicly released for the first time. To celebrate this birthday, version 1.3.0 is now available for download! This new release contains many bugfixes and improvements.


Whole-Slide Imaging

October 22nd, 2016

The Orthanc project is delighted to announce that it now provides a reference, lightweight implementation of DICOM for whole-slide microscopic imaging (digital pathology).


Stone of Orthanc

October 14th, 2016

A new companion tool to Orthanc has just been released! This free and open-source tool is called the Stone of Orthanc. Just like a palantír, Stone is a means of seeing medical images in Orthanc servers.


First Stable Release of Orthanc

December 16th, 2015

After four years of intensive development, we are very happy to announce the release of the first stable version of Orthanc (version 1.0.0).


Survey: Who Uses Orthanc?

July 31st, 2015

The Orthanc project is continuously growing. To support its development, we would love to hear which hospitals, universities, companies and organizations take advantage of Orthanc. Please let us know by sending a short mail!

To put weight on future grant applications for travels/hardware/servers/..., we wish to gather a list of institutions that use Orthanc for production, for quality assurance, or for R&D purpose. These institutions will be publicly listed on this Web site, in a separate "Orthanc Users" section.

If you wish to support Orthanc, please use the following pre-filled mail, ideally attaching your institution's official logo:

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Orthanc Celebrates its Third Birthday

July 20th, 2015

The Orthanc project is now three years old. The last year was exceptionally rich for this free and open-source project. It's time for a short survey!


Illustrations of Orthanc in Action

Februrary 2nd, 2015

Following our talk at FOSDEM 2015 about free and open-source software for medical imaging, discover some media illustrating Orthanc in action.


Orthanc Celebrates its Second Birthday

July 18th, 2014

The first public release of Orthanc was on July 19th, 2012. Today, we are ready to celebrate its second birthday! It is time for a brief review of the past year.


Orthanc to be Even More Open

June 19th, 2014 (updated on July 11th, 2014)

Orthanc 0.8.0 features the possibility for external developers to create and distribute plugins for Orthanc, thanks to the Orthanc Plugin SDK.