Laboratory of Medical Imaging High Performance Computing and Informatics

Medical Imaging Technical Utilities

ImageJ (in Java) developed by Wayne Rasband

ImageJ is a public domain Java-based image processing application inspired by NIH Image. It is publicly downloadable from the ImageJ Web site (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/). The software runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer platforms with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Downloadable distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window. It is multithreaded, so time-consuming operations such as image file reading can be performed in parallel with other operations. The other technical details can be fund on the ImageJ Web site. The author, Wayne Rasband (wsr@nih.gov), is at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. -Wayn

David Clunie's Medical Image Format Site (http://www.dclunie.com/) developed by David Clunie

David's Web site provides very useful and detailed information about DICOM standards and feature development. It also contains DICOM related toolkits such as dicom3tools, Java-based DICOM Toolkit, etc. It should definitely be considered as one of selected information resources for medical imaging.

Commercial Software

Mayo Biomedical Imaging Resources (BIR)'s Medical Imaging Recourse. It has three major commercial software, listed in the following.

Analyze is a comprehensive and interactive package for multidimensional image visualization, processing and analysis.

AVW is a complete C library of optimized algorithms and functions from Analyze with a well defined API for software development.

BIRPacs is a DICOM Pacs system that integrates cleanly with Analyze, providing direct access and storage for DICOM images.