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Dicomweb MCP Server vs Medical Terminologies MCP
In-depth architectural comparison of the Dicomweb MCP Server and Medical Terminologies MCP MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
Dicomweb MCP Server
Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics · Local stdio
Quality: 59/100 (Good) | Auth: other
Medical Terminologies MCP
Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics · Local stdio
Quality: 55/100 (Good) | Auth: API Key required
Verdict Summary: Choose Dicomweb MCP Server if you need specialized Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics tools running via a local process. Choose Medical Terminologies MCP if your workspace requires Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
Choose Dicomweb MCP Server when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics domain.
You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: other (Free / Open Source).
A DICOMweb MCP server that exposes a DICOMweb-compliant DICOM archive to AI assistants, enabling search of studies, series and instances, metadata inspection, structured report reading, encapsulated PDF text extraction, and frame rendering.
Unified MCP server for ICD-11 (WHO), LOINC, RxNorm, MeSH (NLM), ATC, CID-10 (Brazilian DataSUS), and optional SNOMED CT. 28 tools (34 with SNOMED) with structuredContent + outputSchema on every default tool. Hosted on Cloudflare Workers, listed on Smithery, and on npm.
Searches DICOM studies on the configured DICOMweb server. Results are sorted by study date, newest first.
find-series
Searches DICOM series within a single study. Results are sorted by series date, newest first.
find-instances
Searches DICOM instances within a single series. Results are sorted by Instance Number ascending.
find-encapsulated-pdf-reports
Finds all Encapsulated PDF instances in a study by looking for DOC-modality series and filtering by the Encapsulated PDF SOP Class UID (`1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.104.1`).
get-encapsulated-pdf-report-text
Retrieves an Encapsulated PDF DICOM instance and extracts its text content.
find-structured-reports
Finds all Structured Report (SR) instances in a study by looking for SR-modality series and filtering by known SR SOP Class UIDs.
get-structured-report-text
Retrieves a Structured Report instance and converts it to human-readable text.
get-instance-metadata
Retrieves and formats all DICOM attributes of a single instance as human-readable text. Does not retrieve pixel data.
render-instance-frame
Renders a specific frame from a DICOM instance and returns it as an inline image (JPEG or PNG).
Medical Terminologies MCP Tools (39)
icd11_search
Search ICD-11 by term
icd11_lookup
Get entity details by code/URI
icd11_hierarchy
Navigate parent/child relationships
icd11_chapters
List all ICD-11 chapters
icd11_postcoordination
Get postcoordination axes
loinc_search
Search lab tests and observations
loinc_details
Get full LOINC code details
loinc_answers
Get answer list for surveys
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
Dicomweb MCP Server is categorized under Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Medical Terminologies MCP belongs to Biology, Medicine and Bioinformatics using local stdio subprocess. Select Dicomweb MCP Server when you need capabilities focused on biology, medicine and bioinformatics and Medical Terminologies MCP when you require tools for biology, medicine and bioinformatics.