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Marco BARNIG edited this page Dec 18, 2019 · 12 revisions

RadioLogic was designed and developed by Marco Barnig, a retired telecommunications engineer from Luxembourg.

In the early seventies he was a research assistant at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). He had the chance to work with the first microprocessor Intel 4004.

In 1978 Marco Barnig joined POST Luxembourg, the incumbent telecom operator in Luxembourg. At the beginning he was in charge of new telecommunication services : Alarmis, Euronet, Luxpac, Videotex, ISDN, LUXGSM, Internet.

Fifteen years later he became responsible for sales and marketing of all telecommunications services and changed from bits and bytes to customers and contracts.

During his leisure, Marco Barnig continued to follow the progress of the new advanced technologies. He created his first personal websites in the late 90’s where he blogged about algorithmic music, speech synthesis and speech recognition, 3D animations, artificial intelligence, digital and conceptual art.

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After his retirement in mid 2013, he was asked by his son in law, Guillaume Bierry, who is professor of radiology at the university hospital in Strasbourg (CHRU), if it is possible to create a radiology teaching tool for medical students, based on real clinical cases. As an example he showed the iPad application about prostate cancer imaging developped by professor Philippe Puech from Lille.

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After doing some searches on Google, Marco Barnig discovered several outstanding open-source radiology projects :

  • Orthanc Server, by Sébastien Jodogne
  • Cornerstone DICOM framework, by Chris Hafey
  • DWM DICOM viewer, by Yves Martelli)
  • DCMTK DICOM toolkit, by the OFFIS computer science institute
  • GDMC DICOM C++ library, by Mathieu Malaterre

Marco Barnig took up the challenge to start the development of the wanted teaching tool. As a retired engineer, he had several assets : plenty of time, experience, powerful hardware (Windows, Apple and Linux workstations and tablets) and independence.

The milestones of the RadioLogic project are listed below :

  • March 2015 : request for a clinical cases teaching tool from a professor of radiology at the CHU Strasbourg
  • June 3, 2015 : concept of OFUR (outil de formation universitaire radiologique)
  • July 2015 : first prototype of OFUR-lite (viewer)
  • August 2015 : first clinical cases for test
  • August 22, 2015 : post about DICOM image viewers
  • December 2015 : OFUR renamed RadioLogic & creation of logo
  • December 10, 2015 : post about DICOM Testing with DVTk
  • December 15, 2015 : post about Mobile DICOM viewers
  • March 2016 : OrthancPi
  • May 2016 : post about DICOM standard
  • June 2016 : stable version of RadioLogicTutor (viewer)
  • June 14, 2016 : grant of a free UID prefix for RadioLogic by Medical Connections Ltd
  • October 2016 : OrthancMac
  • December 2016 : first stable version of RadioLogicCreator for Mac
  • September 2017 : cornerstoneDicomParserUTF8
  • October 7, 2017 : cornerstoneArchiveImageLoader
  • October, 2017 : evaluation of the Synology Orthanc beta package (forum)
  • January 2018 : first stable Docker version of RadioLogicArchive
  • March 2018 : evaluation of OpenMRS and OpenRIS
  • May 3, 2019 : forum thread : Managing private tags is tricky (issue)
  • May 30, 2019 : first test plugin using job engine (forum tread)
  • September 2019 : first stable version of RadioLogicCreatorPlugin
  • November 2019 : public access to my GitHub repository RadioLogic
  • December 2019 : presentation of RadioLogic : A case-based learning and self-assessment tool for the Orthanc ecosystem for medical imaging at the OrthancCon2019
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