Welcome to YADER

YADER as a simple program for extracting dose from CT studies and reporting dose summary.

Pros

• works like a bot, gathering information periodically using standard C-FIND and C-GET protocols after setup
• minimal server and network overhead
• combined web server
• supports both the local filesystem database (SQLite) and a dedicated database server (PostgreSQL)
• distributed as a single jar file

Cons

• not designed to work in real-time
• cannot extract information where all images are needed to calculate

Before Installation

YADER is distributed as a single fat jar file. And needs Java and Tesseract to run.

Install JAVA

• Run following commands from terminal.

  java --version
  

• If java is not found, install java from jdk.java.net
  • Oracle JRE requires login and license agreement.
  • Recommends LTS version (currently 21).
  • Download file for your operating system, extract to a folder and set PATH, JAVA_HOME environment variables.
    further information : (Baeldung's site)[https://www.baeldung.com/java-home-vs-path-env-var]

Install Tesseract

• Tesseract for Windows users
  Download installer from UB Mannheim
• Tesseract for Mac users
  Recommends installing using Homebrew.

  brew install tesseract
  

Run YADER Conf

• yaderConf is a configuration utility for testing DICOM connection, OCR and regular expression

• before running find out your PACS server's connection information, including IP address, port, application entity (AE) title

• download yaderConf from github release page

• run and answer program's questions

  java -jar yaderConf-(version).jar
  

• if it works to the end, yader will run without problem.

• yaderConf will save yader.conf file in current directory

Run YADER

• download yader from github release page
• run and let's hope everything works well.

  java -jar yader-(version).jar