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From Schemaless DICOM Metadata to Clinician-Friendly Relational Tables in PostgreSQL

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Introduction In a previous article, we explored a zero-code approach to storing DICOM metadata by persisting vendor-specific and modality-specific tags as JSONB in an extradicomtags column. This approach embraces the reality of clinical imaging data: the schema is heterogeneous, nested, and constantly evolving. By storing the raw metadata as a JSON document and applying GIN … [Read more…]

Building a Zero-Code DICOM Ingestion Pipeline with Orthanc

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The Real Problem: Ingestion Is Not the Product In medical imaging platforms, ingestion is often treated as a prerequisite rather than a core problem. Yet teams repeatedly invest months building custom pipelines just to move DICOM files from point A to point B. A typical from-scratch ingestion pipeline ends up requiring filesystem watchers or DICOM … [Read more…]