OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN OF MEDICAL IMAGING SOFTWARE

A special software package for interactive display and manipulation of medical images was developed at the University Hospital of Geneva, as part of a hospital wide Picture Archiving and Communication System (P ACS). This software package, called Osiris, was especially designed to be easily usable and adaptable to the needs of noncomputer-oriented p hysicians. The Osiris software has been developed to allow the visuali zation of medical images obtained from any imaging modality. It provid es generic manipulation tools, processing tools, and analysis tools mo re specific to clinical applications. This software, based on an objec t-oriented paradigm, is portable and extensible. Osiris is available o n two different operating systems: the Unix X-11/OSF-Motif based works tations, and the Macintosh family.