# Orthanc API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/orthanc-api/  
**Provider:** UCLouvain — https://apis.io/providers/uclouvain/  
**Base URL:** https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/demo/  
**Documentation:** https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/

Orthanc API is one of 9 APIs that [UCLouvain](https://apis.io/providers/uclouvain/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Medical Imaging, DICOM, Open-Source, Research Software, and Health Informatics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and API documentation.

Orthanc is a free and open-source, vendor-neutral DICOM server and medical-imaging ecosystem. UCLouvain describes itself as "the innovation engine behind Orthanc": the project is led by its author Sebastien Jodogne inside the Health Informatics Lab at ICTEAM, and the INGI department hosts and maintains the server infrastructure at orthanc.uclouvain.be. The REST API contract is generated from the Orthanc source and covers 239 paths / 299 operations across patients, studies, series, instances, modalities, peers, jobs, plugins and storage. This is the one surface in this repository that is UCLouvain's own engineering rather than a purchased platform's, and the public demo server answers unauthenticated GET /system live.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/openapi/uclouvain-orthanc-api-openapi.yml
- **x-openapi-original** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/uclouvain-orthanc-api.json
- **APIReference** — https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/api/index.html
- **Documentation** — https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/
- **x-example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/examples/uclouvain-orthanc-system-example.json
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other UCLouvain APIs (8)

- [Open Data @ UCLouvain -- Dataverse deployment (Native + Search API)](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dataverse-native-api/)
- [Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dataverse-oai/)
- [DIAL.pr (BOREAL) -- DSpace-CRIS REST API](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-pr-rest/)
- [DIAL.pr OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-pr-oai/)
- [DIAL.mem -- DSpace-CRIS REST API](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-mem-rest/)
- [DIAL.mem OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-mem-oai/)
- [OER-UCLouvain OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/oer-oai/)
- [UCLouvain Shibboleth Identity Provider -- SAML 2.0 metadata](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/identity-federation/)

## Tags

Medical Imaging, DICOM, Open-Source, Research Software, Health Informatics, Belgium

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/orthanc-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/uclouvain/.