DESK Exposing Server Kit

DESK is a remote desktop, originally for visualization and processing of medical images. It currently only works under linux or Mac OS, but patches are welcome!

This repository contains the node.js code to run the server. The source code for the UI is available here: https://github.com/valette/desk-ui

There are also two local versions available (run locally on your computer) :

• desk-electron
• desk-nw

Goals

The goal is to be able to use efficient visualisation tools such as THREE.js and qooxdoo on top of already existing server-side commandline programs.

Each server-side program is registered as an 'action', provided by a .json file. As an example, you can have a look at the ACVD.json file from the ACVD repository

DESK can also help to generate static content suited to release on the web. An example of static content served by a classic apache server is visible here : http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~valette/200

Infos and live demo

a live demo is visible here: https://desk.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/demo/

more infos? Click here http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~valette/desk.html

License

CeCILL-B (BSD-compatible), if you use this code for academic purposes, please cite this article:

Link to PDF H. Jacinto, R. Kéchichan, M. Desvignes, R. Prost, and S. Valette, "A Web Interface for 3D Visualization and Interactive Segmentation of Medical Images", 17th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web 3D 2012), Los-Angeles, USA, pp. 51-58, 2012

Copyright (c) CNRS, INSA-Lyon, UCBL, INSERM

Dependencies

To install desk on your computer, you need:

• git
• node.js

to visualize 3D data (meshes, volumes) you also need;

• vtk + headers
• cmake

Installation

git clone http://github.com/valette/desk.git
cd desk
npm install

to install binary addons for 3D data visualization (needs vtk and cmake):

npm run buildAddons

Usage

node desk.js

then point your browser to localhost:8080

login as:

• user : your linux username
• password : "password"

The desk API is visible here : http://localhost:8080/ui/api

Debug

Building the debug version is done as follows :

cd node_modules/desk-ui
git clone https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo
npm install
npm run build

Afterwards, the debug version is here : http://localhost:8080/ui/source

Acknowledgements

This software benefits from several open-source contributions:

• VTK
• node.js
• three.js
• qooxdoo
• OpenCTM
• ACVD