diff --git a/dicomViewer.js b/dicomViewer.js
index 5520cf0..529aaae 100644
--- a/dicomViewer.js
+++ b/dicomViewer.js
@@ -663,8 +663,4 @@ function urltoFile(url, filename, mimeType) {
         .then(function (buf) {
             return new File([buf], filename, { type: mimeType });
         });
-}
-
-function saveAnnotations() {
-
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 4bebd1c..a6d7721 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <main>
       <h1>A dicom viewer</h1>
 
-    <div id="dicom-viewer" class="dicom-viewer" style="height: 600px;" data-images="test_images/IMG1.dcm,test_images/IMG2.dcm" data-annotations=''></div>
+    <div id="dicom-viewer" class="dicom-viewer" style="height: 600px;" data-images='["test_images/IMG1.dcm","test_images/IMG1.dcm"]'></div>
 
     </main>
     <footer></footer>
diff --git a/loader.js b/loader.js
index 52802ed..a298125 100644
--- a/loader.js
+++ b/loader.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ $(document).ready(function () {
   loadDicomViewer();
 });
 
-function loadDicomViewer(images_to_load) {
+function loadDicomViewer(images_to_load, annotations_to_load) {
   console.log("loadDicomViewer", images_to_load);
   let single_dicom = document.getElementById("dicom-viewer");
   if (single_dicom) {
@@ -15,17 +15,21 @@ function loadDicomViewer(images_to_load) {
 
     if (images_to_load != undefined) {
       images = images_to_load;
-      console.log("i1", images)
     } else if (images.indexOf(",") > 0) {
-      images = images.split(",");
+      images = JSON.parse(images);
     }
 
     console.log(images);
 
     let annotations = single_dicom.dataset.annotations;
-    if (annotations != undefined && annotations.indexOf(",") > 0) {
-      annotations = annotations;
+    if (annotations != undefined) {
+      annotations = annotations_to_load;
+    } else if (annotations && annotations.indexOf(",") > 0) {
+      annotations = JSON.parse(annotations);
+    } else {
+      annotations = undefined;
     }
+
     let load_as_stack;
     if (images.length > 5) {
       load_as_stack = true;