dwv vs openseadragon

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dwv		openseadragon
	Project
3	Mentions	3
1,596	Stars	2,914
-	Growth	1.5%
9.7	Activity	9.2
5 days ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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dwv

Posts with mentions or reviews of dwv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.

Fasten Health - Open Source Self-hosted Personal Health Record
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jan 2023

Yes! The UI for displaying binary data (PDF's, images, medical imaging, etc) is still being actively developed, but DICOM support is on the list. I was considering using the popular ivmartel/dwv library for displaying DICOM images.
Patients can now access all their health records digitally
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2022

The DVD drive, yeah, that's annoying, but the portable ones exist. And the DVD has its own (Windows only) self-installing viewer thing.
Web viewers exist too: https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/
Not to say it's great UX, but it's really not that hard to solve compared to the rest of the mess of the medical industry.
It's a bureaucratic nightmare thing, not a software challenge.
Dicom File Format Basics
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2022

openseadragon

Posts with mentions or reviews of openseadragon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-13.

Welcome!
1 project | /r/openseadragon | 27 May 2023

The OpenSeadragon community already has number of places to hang out, like GitHub, Discord, and Twitter, but why not Reddit too?
717 gigapixel resolution picture of painting "The Nightwatch". The highest resolution ever taken of artwork. Zoom as much as you can.
1 project | /r/InternetIsBeautiful | 17 Mar 2022
Is there any image viewer library which mimics the functionality/behavior of the Reddit Sync image viewer for albums?
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 13 Aug 2021

Take a look at openseadragon

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dwv and openseadragon you can also consider the following projects:

dicomviewer - DICOM Viewer in Nextcloud

Swiper - Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions

Viewers - OHIF zero-footprint DICOM viewer and oncology specific Lesion Tracker, plus shared extension packages

ImageViewer - Read long string of picture, pure html/javascript/css (no nodejs, no server required, no installation required)

u-dicom-viewer - A simple web browser DICOM viewer for any device.

noita-map-viewer - A fast, fully-responsive, OpenSeadragon-based map viewer for the videogame Noita.

invesalius3 - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software

dezoomify - Dezoomify is a web application to download zoomable images from museum websites, image galleries, and map viewers. Many different zoomable image technologies are supported.

docs - WIP Documentation for Fasten Health.

miele-lxiv - DICOM Viewer 64-bit fully open source