Application Deployment¶
MONAI Label user apps are readily deployable on the MONAI Label Server. Simply, MONAI Label Server opens a number of HTTP connection endpoints that define what actions clients can take, and in turn the server relays the action to the MONAI Label application which defines how the actions are taken.
Deploying an Application¶
The MONAI Label Server endpoints are available at startup. The user may download and start a sample app
# download a sample app
monailabel apps --name deepedit --download --output .
# start the sample app locally
monailabel start_server --app deepedit --studies <path/to/datastore>
and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ on the browser (if the server is running on the local machine). The user may choose to use the web UI to invoke the various endpoints for the purpose of integration testing their labeling app.
The --studies argument may point to an empty folder or a folder with images in a flat structure.
If the datastore is empty the user is required to first upload an image (e.g. via 3DSlicer client or
web UI), however, if the datastore is populated the user may select the “next image” to annotate
based on the image selection strategy defined in the labeling app.
