We have a public server. Check it out here.

https://fluxinc.ca/public-test-dicom-modality-worklist/

This is a standalone worklist SCP provider for a particular RIS called Terra. The implementation has been deliberately split into DMWL management classes and database interface classes so that it can be reused.

See notes at the end about how to turn this into a worklist daemon for other schemas.

This is all very rudimentary. Briefly, this application:

• Generates DCMTk "dump" files based on a data mapping class from a MySQL data source
• Converts those dump files into DCM .wl records using dump2dcm
• Provides a way to run wlmscpfs to use those files and pipe output to a log file

Copyright (c) 2015 Wojtek Grabski

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• DCMTk binaries, either from Homebrew on Mac, or from the OFFIS website (installation instructions are provided below).

Clone the project:

$ git clone [email protected]:gamut/terra.dmwl.git
$ cd terra.dmwl

If the first step fails, that's because you don't have a Bitbucket account, or haven't yet updated your SSH keys on the site. Read here to find out how to do that.

On Debian (Ubuntu, etc):

$ apt-get install dcmtk

On Fedora, CentOS, etc:

$ yum install dcmtk

First install Homebrew:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
$ brew doctor

Then install DCMTk:

$ brew install dcmtk

Then, create links to the relevant binaries (this is just in case paths aren't configured in your PHP environment):

$ mkdir 3rd-party/dcmtk/bin
$ ln -s $(which wlmscpfs) 3rd-party/dcmtk/bin/wlmscpfs
$ ln -s $(which dump2dcm) 3rd-party/dcmtk/bin/dump2dcm

Download DCMTk binaries:

ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/dcmtk/dcmtk360/bin/dcmtk-3.6.0-win32-i386.zip

Windows does not support linking in the filesystem (without some extensions), so extract DCMTk directly into the terra.dmwl\3rd-party\dcmtk folder.

Make sure that \3rd-party\dcmtk\bin contains wlmscpfs.exe and dump2dcm.exe.

Make a copy of global-headers/configuration.inc.template.php to global-headers/configuration.inc.php

Linux and Mac:

$ cp global-headers/configuration.inc.template.php global-headers/configuration.inc.php  

Windows:

> copy .\global-headers\configuration.inc.template.php .\global-headers\configuration.inc.php  

Then edit global-headers/configuration.inc.php. Refer to comments throughout. Be very sure to check and adjust, DATABASE_, and DMWL_ parameters.

Also adjust DCMTK_BIN_PATH if you'd like to be more specific about the location of dump2dcm and wlmscpfs, but if you've followed the instructions above then you can leave that one as-is.

To create and prune worklist records, a periodic execution of the scripts/update_orders.php script is required. The script:

• Deletes stale records that exceed DMWL_MAX_AGE age in days. Note: If you're not getting any records during your tests, this is probably the reason!
• Checks if existing records have changed, updates and creates new .wl files in the worklist database folder.

To do this on Windows, merely create a scheduled task that runs PHP.EXE, and passes the full path and name of the script as an argument, e.g.,

C:\Program Files\PHP\bin\PHP.EXE C:\apps\terra_dmwl\scripts\update_orders.php

Set it to run every fifteen minutes. Check the contents logs/default.log to ensure that it operates as expected.

Hint: You can always drop to the command prompt and run this task manually to see if it spits out any errors.

A cron task will suffice:

$ crontab -e

Then add the following entry:

*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/username/terra_dwml/scripts/update_orders.php >/dev/null 2>&1

Make sure to adjust the path to update_orders.php and php to reflect your environment!

Save and exit.

To help with running the DMWL server, I've created a script that:

• Reads operating parameters from the DMWL_AE_TITLE, DMWL_PORT, and DMWL_DCM_PATH configuration options from global-headers/configuration.inc.php. The default port 1070 is because anything lower than 1024 requires elevation on Windows and root context on Linux and Mac.
• Executes wlmscpfs and redirects STDERR to logs\wlmscpfs.stderr.log

To run the DICOM modality worklist daemon.

> C:\Program Files\PHP\php c:\path_to\terra.dmwl\scripts\dmwl_deamon.php

You might try to use NSSM to turn this into a Windows service.

An upstart job will do. A sample configuration is provided in docs/upstart/dmwl_daemon.conf. This script requires root privileges, and so it's best installed in /etc/init:

$ sudo cp docs/upstart/dmwl_daemon.conf /etc/init/
$ sudo initctl reload-configuration

Then you can use the following command to start/stop the daemon:

$ service dmwl_daemon start
$ service dmwl_daemon stop
$ service dmwl_daemon status

Everything is written to be modified. To introduce another schema just clone the project and branch it. Then:

Adjust the configuration:

• You'll probably only need to change the APP_SHORT and DATABASE parameters, but feel free to modify other things to suit your tastes.

Make a new data management class to pull records from your database:

1. Copy the TerraExamsMgmt.php class to a new file in the same folder, call it NewAppExamsMgmt, or something.
2. Modify the QUERY_GET_EXAMS constant to get all the required fields.
3. Adjust the get_between_dates method, if needed.

Make a new data object and mapping class to turn that data into DICOM dump files:

1. Copy the TerraExam.php class in data-objects to a new file, call is something else, like NewAppExam.php. It's imperative that this class name end with Exam because of a simple check down the stack.
2. Make modifications to the class attribute list, if you think you need more fields.
3. Modify the __construct method so that it properly translates from your database row to the class attributes. Make sure you set all the attributes!
4. Modify the static recent method to appropriately call the NewAppExamsMgmt class created above.

Then make sure that DMWL_SOURCE_CLASS in global-headers/configuration.inc.php points to this new class!

And that's it. Everything else should work properly.