Exploring WebRTC Potential for DICOM File Sharing

Ivan Drnasin; Mislav Grgic; Gordan Gledec

doi:10.1007/s10278-019-00305-0

Exploring WebRTC Potential for DICOM File Sharing

J Digit Imaging. 2020 Jun;33(3):697-707. doi: 10.1007/s10278-019-00305-0.

Authors

Ivan Drnasin^{1

2}, Mislav Grgic^{3

4}, Gordan Gledec⁴

Affiliations

¹ Infomedica, Research and Development, Sime Ljubica 55, 21000, Split, Croatia. ivan.drnasin@infomedica.hr.
² Department of Applied Computing, Faculty of EE and Comp, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. ivan.drnasin@infomedica.hr.
³ Department of Wireless Communications, Faculty of EE and Comp, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁴ Department of Applied Computing, Faculty of EE and Comp, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

Abstract

This paper explores the potential use of WebRTC set of protocols for DICOM file exchange. We have developed a simple proof-of-concept peer-to-peer DICOM file-sharing web application based on a set of WebRTC protocols. Application performance is compared with contemporary DICOM applications and transfer protocols which showed that WebRTC has its place in the DICOM file-sharing domain.

Keywords: DICOM; DICOMWeb; DIMSE; HTTP; WebRTC.