XNAT 1.8.8 is primarily a new feature release, focused on the introduction of Custom Forms as a dramatic improvement over Custom Variables as a means of adding new searchable attributes to existing XNAT data types. Custom Forms can be added to experiments of all types, including imaging and non-imaging data, as well as projects and subjects. The Custom Forms feature required significant work across XNAT and its data models, and is the culmination of nearly two years of development work.…
The latest release of XNAT contains a small but impactful set of features and fixes, including a powerful set of tools for surveying and mitigating the effects of a change in DICOM file naming behavior that was introduced in XNAT 1.8.5.
Other key features and improvements:
Improvements for data ingestion
Email notifications can be sent via the XNAT Event Service
Library upgrade to DicomEdit 6.4,…
To the XNAT Community:
It was wonderful seeing so many new and familiar faces at the 2022 XNAT Workshop held in London several weeks ago. Many thanks to our hosts at UCL and NCITA who staged the largest and arguably most engaging workshop we’ve held to date.
We announced a number of exciting developments at the workshop that we’d like to share with those who were unable to attend, including renewed NIH funding, impactful new features, and development of a global data network.…
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The beta release of the XNAT / Jupyter Notebooks Integration is now available!
One of the most exciting demos in the XNAT Workshop in London was the demonstration of an integration between XNAT and JupyterHub, so that users within XNAT can natively launch a Jupyter Notebook with image data mounted and available for all manner of Python scripting with XNATpy and/or the scripting languages of your choice.…
XNAT 1.8.6.1 Hotfix Release is Strongly Recommended for users of XNAT 1.8.5+
XNAT 1.8.6.1 is a hotfix release, addressing a critical bug discovered in XNAT 1.8.5 that affects DICOM file naming when importing scans via C-STORE. We strongly urge all sites running XNAT 1.8.5 and above to upgrade to XNAT 1.8.6.1, and to stay tuned for upcoming utility services that we will be testing and releasing to help mitigate the issue caused by this bug.…
From day one, XNAT has existed to serve the needs of the imaging research community, and its growth over the past twenty years has been fueled by collaboration across multiple sources, as well as continued funding from the NIH. This year, we are announcing a new evolution in our collaborative relationship: A full merger of XNAT development teams from Washington University School of Medicine and Radiologics, all coming together under the Flywheel umbrella.…
XNAT 1.8.6 Is Now Available
XNAT 1.8.6 has been released and is ready to install. This version of XNAT includes several important updates, but also includes an important caveat for XNATs running custom-developed plugins and if you are using Container Service and/or ML plugins, you will need to update these as well (see below for more). Here is a quick overview of what is included.…
The XNAT Team is happy to announce that version 3.1.0 of the XNAT Desktop Client has been released. This version offers major performance improvements to help make use of the bulk upload features introduced in version 3.0.0. In particular, this version of the uploader offers much greater support for uploading image scans with thousands of files in them.
One important note with version 3.1: Updating to this version will erase your transfer history.…
Container Service 3.2.0 Released!
New: Support for Kubernetes!
In addition to Docker and Docker Swarm, with Container Service 3.2.0 you can now run your container jobs on a Kubernetes cluster. We expect that this will be a welcome addition for site admins that deploy to the cloud, as all the cloud providers have native solutions for building a Kubernetes cluster.
All the core Container Service operations are supported: launching containers, monitoring and reporting their states,…
XNAT 1.8.5 is now available and ready to install. This version of XNAT includes several important updates, including some exciting new functionality. Here is a quick overview of what is included.…
