Overview
Xebra is an open source platform for web-based distribution and clinical review of medical imaging results. The software provides healthcare organizations and software developers with all the necessary components to securely transmit and review medical images over a network such as the Internet.
Unlike closed and proprietary imaging software locked to a single vendor, Xebra is intended to work alongside any picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and to provide advanced imaging capabilities to a wide range of healthcare IT applications including use in:
- health information exchanges (HIEs)
- regional health information organizations (RHIOs)
- electronic medical records (EMRs)
- personal health records (PHRs)
- clinical trials
- medical education
Written in Java, the software is designed to run on any operating system with an ultra-thin client that can be launched over the Web without any installation required by the end user.
Licensing
Xebra is available under the "dual licensing" model in which individuals and/or organizations may choose to use Xebra under the version 2 of the free software/open source GNU General Public License (commonly known as the "GPL") or under a commercial license.
Those developing and distributing open source applications under the GPL license are free to use Xebra under the GPL license. Commercial OEMs, ISVs, and VARs wishing to embed, resell or otherwise distribute Xebra as part of their own commercial solution and who do not license and distribute their souce code under the GPL can contact HxTI to purchase a Xebra commercial license.
Contributing
HxTI encourages open source software developers with an interest in medical imaging software to join a growing community of those working to extend Xebra's features and capabilities. To learn more, visit the Xebra project at SourceForge.
Xebra Release Candidate 1 (RC1) was publicly launched on 6 November 2007 and provides the following features:
- URL-based on-demand Installation/launch over the Web
- Basic navigation tools
- Stack mode navigation of series
- Thumbnail representation of each series - thumbnail itself is stack-mode navigable
- Series and study info windows
- Basic image manipulation tools
- Window width/level with modality presets
- Zoom
- Pan
- Invert
- Flip
- Rotate
- Toggle overlays
- Fit to panel
- 1:1 actual size reset
- Tabbed, multi-study browsing
- Encrypted network communication and encrypted performance caching
Interoperability
Xebra is built upon and adheres to the latest industry standards including JPEG2000, Web Access to DICOM Objects (WADO) and is compliant with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) cross-enterprise document sharing for imaging (XDS-I) specification as an XDS-I imaging document source, document repository, and consumer.
Downloads
Xebra can be downloaded from its project home hosted and actively maintained on SourceForge at