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Orthanc was designed and created by Sébastien Jodogne, a belgian computer scientist, who holds a a degree in computer science (2001) and a doctorate in science (2006) at the University of Liège, always with highest honors.

He worked first as a software engineer for several companies and co-founded Jomago in 2010, before joining end 2011 the CHU Liège as medical imaging engineer.

Sébastien Jodogne works currently as a software consulting in his own company Orthanc Labs. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Osimis, a spin-off company of the CHU Liège, which was created in 2015, alongside the Orthanc project, to help it reach a wider market.

Sébastien-Jodogne

He continues to work as teacher and scientific collaborator within the university of Liège. Sébastien Jodogne is an Officer of Walloon Merit and was rewarded several prices.

The milestones ot the Orthanc project are listed hereafter:

  • 2011 : inception -> academic project
  • July 2012 : first release (0.1.0) as Palantir
  • September 2012 : renaming to Orthanc (0.2.0) and logo contest
  • October 2012 : default HTTP port 8042 (0.2.3)
  • January 2013 : anonymization, ZIP and support of private tags (0.5.0)
  • April 2013 : launch of the Google groups Orthanc forum
  • June 2013 : Orthanc peers
  • July 2013 : access to metadata (0.6.0)
  • October 2013 : Orthanc becomes a vendor neutral archive (VNA)
  • October 2013 : keep PatientID during anonymization (0.7.0)
  • July 2014 : introduction of LUA scripts and the Orthanc Plugin SDK (0.8.0)
  • July 16, 2014 : CodeProject : Implementing a WADO Server using Orthanc
  • August 2014 : enhancement of LUA scripts (0.8.2)
  • September 2014 : support of DICOMDIR (0.8.3)
  • November 2014 : new database schema (0.8.5)
  • December 2014 : interfacing with ImageJ
  • February 2015 : access Orthanc peers (0.8.6)
  • February 2015 : WebViewer and PostgresSQL plugins
  • March 21, 2015 : FSF award for the Advancement of Free Software to Sébastien Jodogne
  • April 2015 : first Orthanc image on DockerHub
  • June 8, 2015 : Agoria eHealth Award
  • June 2015 : Orthanc Client SDK (0.9.0)
  • August 2015 : Google log replaced by internal Orthanc logger (0.9.3) " August 2015 : DICOMweb plugin
  • September 2015 : new plugin functions (0.9.4)
  • September 21, 2015 : creation of OSIMIS as spin-off startup of the CHU Liège
  • December 2015 : new uri's, functions and events (0.9.5)
  • December 15, 2015 : first stable release (1.0.0)
  • June 2016 : new logo of Orthanc (1.1.0)
  • October 2016 : whole-slide imaging
  • December 2016 : advanced features for REST API and plugins (1.2.0)
  • July 2017 : anonymization according PS 3.15-2017c (1.3.0)
  • November 2017 : new pixel formats exposed in SDK (1.3.1)
  • May 3, 2018 : The Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging
  • July 2018 : new advanced job engine (1.4.0)
  • September 2018 : handle jobs from plugins (1.4.2)
  • December 2018 : support of large databases in Orthanc Explorer (1.5.0)
  • January 2019 : CivetWeb is new default embedded HTTP server (1.5.2)
  • February 2019 : track Orthanc metrics (1.5.4)
  • June 2019 : support of HTTP POST/PUT with chunked/multipart body (1.5.7)
  • October 2019 : API version 4 (1.5.8)
  • December 2019 : first international conference about Orthanc (OrthancCon 2019)

The detailed list of all Orthanc software versions is available in the NEWS file on BitBucket.

The history of Orthanc was presented by Sébastien Jodogne at the OrthancCon 2019 : Looking back through the palantír.

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