DVTk again used as basis for IHE test tools!

Floris Verstegen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:50:41 -0000

Radiation Therapy equipment vendors can qualify for participation in IHE-RO connectathons by carrying out a defined test set with the help of IHE-Radiation Oncology test tools. In 2007 and 2008, these test tools were based on DVTk and have been developed by ICT Automatisering. Prior to IHE-RO connectathons, the test tools were used by participating suppliers to generate test results. These results indicated whether the system complied with IHE-RO workflows. These test tools have been donated to the public domain by ASTRO as is customary for IHE test tools.

In 2009, ICT Automatisering again has been chosen by ASTRO to build two new IHE-RO test tools based on the DVTk library! Test tools for the IHE-RO integration profiles "Advanced RT Objects" and "Integrated Positioning and Delivery Workflow" will be developed by ICT Automatisering and will become available for the ASTRO members before the IHE-RO Connectathon this year. In the beginning of next year, these tools will also be donated to the public domain by ASTRO.

Beta Testers DICOM Network Analyzer Wanted

Floris Verstegen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:16:56 -0000

We are looking for Beta testers that would like to help testing the new beta of the DICOM Network Analyzer. You can send an e-mail to info@dvtk.org if you would like to receive a beta version of the DICOM Network Analyzer and test it.

DVT: 2.4.6 Released

Floris Verstegen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:30:36 -0000

Today we released DVT version 2.4.6. It contains a minor fix for an issue found in the 2.4.4 version. It now also includes the manual that wasn't updated in the previous version and needed to be downloaded.
From now on the installer will only install DVT 2.4.6. Definition Files are required and should be installed seperately. If you already have installed DVT 2.4.4 then these are already present. The sames goes for the example projects, these need to be downloaded and installed also seperately. If you already installed DVT 2.4.4 these will already be installed on your system.

Report of the SIIM event 2009 featuring DVTk applications

Floris Verstegen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:44:34 -0000

By Glenn Potter.

Despite the smaller crowd at SIIM this year the plug fest featuring the open source tools was very energetic. As soon as Dr. Nagy kicked it off I was surrounded by a group of 10-15 people asking questions and looking for demo's of the tools. I was busy for about 2.5 hours straight. That is a great sign for the popularity of the DVTk tool set. Of the ten open source projects there I would say DVTk was the most popular followed next by DCM4CHE. To be sure your work and that of the other dvtk developers is very useful and much appreciated.

I would say the attendees were about 20% developers and 80% pacs administrators. The most popular tools of course were the Modality Emulator and the Network Analyzer. There was no network available, but using DCM4CHEE as my pacs I was able to demonstrate some workflow testing. One suggestion was to add a 'quick mwl query' button to the Modality Emulator that prompted the user for ip, port, ae, and one or two pieces of critieria without having to edit the worklist query object - then just do the query and display the results without initiating the complete mwl, mpps, image storage, image commit workflow. Basically, the PACS admin wants to unplug the problem modality from the network, plug their laptop in place of it, do the query and show the tech or vendor rep that the RIS/broker is configured correctly and responding as it should.

DVT: 2.4.4 Released

Floris Verstegen — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:37:25 -0000

Test, validate and diagnose communication protocols in medical environments (DICOM, HL7 and IHE). DVTk is a must have for software developers, test engineers and service engineers that work in the healthcare domain. NEW. Services on www.dvtk.org!

A new version of DVT has been released. DVT (DICOM Validation Tool) is an application that helps in testing and validating DICOM interfaces.
Version 2.4.4 brings a lot of bug fixes and support for new DICOM functionality. The validation has been enhanced and extended.
This version contains a few fixes for the issues that were found in the 2.4.3 beta. This is now also the new stable version.

DVT: Beta version 2.4.3 now available

Floris Verstegen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:05:53 -0000

All implementation changes and internal tests for the current DVT release have now been completed. Beta tests on the DVT Beta version 2.4.3 will now start. If you want to help us Beta test this version also, please download and report any problems you find in our ticket system on dvtk.org.

DVTk webinar postponed

Floris Verstegen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:35:27 -0000

One month ago, we asked for feedback for the webinar we wanted to organize. We did get some good replies back from our users. When we looked at the actual need for a webinar in the replies, we came to the conclusion that this was not enough to justify a webinar now, looking at other activities we are currently busy with. So we have decided to try to organize a webinar on a later date.

As I mentioned, we did get some interesting replies back from some people. Our intention is to e-mail (and maybe as a results phone) these people individually to share their and our thought.

Thanks for the feedback we received and maybe we'll get in touch with you.

Roadmap/Project Update

Floris Verstegen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:18:39 -0000

The Roadmap has been updated again to reflect the current project status. The release of DVT is still in progress but we are very close now. You may already have seen the request for beta testers on the website.
A list of changes will be published together with the beta to give you an idea about why it took some time since the last release. So keep a close eye on the website the coming weeks.

DVT Beta testers needed

Floris Verstegen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:09:38 -0000

Last months, we have been working hard to improve DVT. A lot of known problems and change requests have now been implemented for the new DVT release. We will soon start Beta testing this with a select group of users.

If you would like to help us Beta test this release, please send an e-mail to info@dvtk.org with a motivation and a short description of your profession. As soon as the Alpha tests have finished, we will send all Beta testers a link with the new release.

When we have solved problems found during the Alpha and Beta tests and have good confidence in this release, we will publish it as a stable release on SourceForge and http://www.dvtk.org.

Marco

User Manual Modality Emulator

Floris Verstegen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:11:05 -0000

For some reason we simply forgot to publish it somewhere on the website, the Modality Emulator user manual. But it is available now from SourceForge.net. A special thanks to the author of the manual, Mr. Brouwer.

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