OsiriX is an image processing application for Mac dedicated to DICOM images produced by equipment. OsiriX is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF, JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and QuickTime. It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image communication and image file formats. OsiriX is able to receive images transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical imaging modality. Since 2010, a commercial version of OsiriX, named "OsiriX MD", is available. Its original source code is still available on Github. A demo version, "OsiriX Lite", still remains available free of charge with some limitations.
History
The OsiriX project started in 2004 at UCLA with Dr Antoine Rosset and Prof. Osman Ratib. OsiriX has been developed by Rosset, working in LaTour Hospital and Joris Heuberger, a computer scientist from Geneva. In 2010, a version of OsiriX for iPhone and iPod touch was released.
Features
OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D Viewer and 5D Viewer. The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes: Multiplanar reconstruction, Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum intensity projection. All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series. OsiriX is simultaneously a DICOM PACS workstation for imaging and an image processing software package for research, functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging. OsiriX supports a complete plug-in architecture that allows one to expand the capabilities of OsiriX for personal needs. OsiriX is released under a proprietary license and runs under macOS. OsiriX source code makes heavy use of Apple idioms such as Cocoa. The source is almost entirely in Objective-C.
Pixmeo company
In 2010, the OsiriX Team created the company Pixmeo to promote and distribute a special limited version of OsiriX called OsiriX MD. Unlike the regular version, this version is certified for medical imaging. OsiriX MD is a FDA cleared 510k class II medical device, according to US Food And Drug Regulation CFR21 part 820. OsiriX MD complies with European Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices. Under this directive, it is regarded as a class IIa.
