LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite - .Net/DLL/Class Library/API - V15.0

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Provide support for industry-standard medical imaging. LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite gives complete DICOM support including DICOM communications with high-level features that simplify the creation of your DICOM client/server applications. With Medical Imaging Suite you get high-level functions that automate sending DICOM Request and Response Command Sets, greatly simplifying the process of coding application communications and complete support for Message Exchange.

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LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite V15.0

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What's New in V15.0

• 64 Bit Support - In addition to Win32 support, LEADTOOLS Raster, Document, Medical and Vector toolkits now provide support for developing applications to target Windows XP 64-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit.  The toolkit includes 32 and 64-bit API, C++ Class Library and .NET Class Library interfaces
• Dramatically Improved Performance - Increased speed of the LEADTOOLS engines including encoders/decoders (CCITT G3, CCITT G4, JBIG, ABC, JPEG, etc) and many of the image processing functions
• Web Forms - Develop rich interactive web-based applications using ASP .NET
  • A Web ImageViewer control for displaying an image on an ASP.NET 2.0 web form
  • The ImageViewer is used to display any image file format supported by web browsers (JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP)
  • Includes an HTTP handler to serve non-browser supported formats
  • Large image support through tiling
  • Includes an HTTP handler to get file information for files on the server or accessible via http
  • The ImageViewer control can automatically handle zooming and scrolling
• New Features Added to the .NET Library
• Special Effects for image display
• Screen Capture
• DICOM and DICOM Communication
• Barcode reading and writing
• New File Formats in .NET
• DJV
• SID
• TFX
• PCT
• FPX
• WMZ
• .NET Viewer and ImageList Enhancements
• Multi-select with mouse
• Rubberband select
• Pan window with Annotations
• Magnifying Glass with Annotations
• Color Conversion Enhancements - Read and write ICC Profiles from images
• Medical Imaging
• 32-bit Integer Grayscale support – load/save/display (DICOM/TIFF)
• Complete native .NET support for DICOM and DICOM Communication
• Unicode Support
• Vector Format Enhancements
• Transparency support for raster objects
• Convert Polydraw into Polygon & Polylines
• Support for units
• Improved support for DWG, DXF and DWF formats
• Added support for saving DGN
• Added support for NAP format
• NITF Format Support
• The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is the suite of standards for formatting and exchanging digital imagery and imagery-related products defined by the United States Department of Defense (US DOD). This standard allows for interoperability of systems used for formatting, transmitting, receiving, and processing imagery and imagery-related information.
• Barcode
• Improved Barcode Recognition accuracy
• Faster Barcode Recognition
• New Linear 1D Barcode types
• EAN EXT 5
• EAN EXT 2
• MSI
• CODE 11
• Standard 2 of 5
• Patch Code
• PostNet
• Databind Support for .NET Viewer Control – Use the .NET database engine to store and retrieve images to/from any database supported by .NET.
• New interpolation options for image resize:
• Triangular-peaked weighting
• Hermite
• Bell
• Quadratic B-Spline
• Cubic B-Spline
• BoxFilter (Nearest Neighbor)
• Lanczos
• Michell
• Cosize
• CatmullRom
• Quadratic
• Cubic Convolution
• Bilinear
• Bresenham
• Image Histogram Dialog - Medical Imaging demo that shows how LEADTOOLS functionality can segment, redistribute, and remove noise from the image data. This demo supports most Medical image types including 12 and 16-bit grayscale images, images with signed or un-signed data, and images with a LUT
• Printing function using GDI+ - A new function which uses GDI+ for optimized and fast printing of images. It produces a smaller spooler file size, which will increase the speed of the printing over a network

Overview

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging improvements include 12-bit Lossy JPEG import/Export support, faster multi-frame DICOM creation and retrieval and faster DICOM Communications. Additional image processing functionality has been added. In addition, expanded TWAIN v1.9 support, advanced color conversion functions, and the ability to compress images in memory have also been added. There are New common dialogs and existing dialogs have been enhanced with a progressive new look and feature set. Additional image formats are being supported, pushing the number of LEADTOOLS supported image formats count to over 150.

LEADTOOLS Medical Annotation Module is now included with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging and Medical Imaging Suite. Additionally, the following add ons are included with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite:

• LEADTOOLS DICOM Communication Module
• DICOM Security Module

Take a look at what's new:

• Faster DICOM
• New Modular Product Structure
• Image Processing Enhancements (over 100 new functions)
• More Color Conversion Options
• New TWAIN V1.9 Support
• New Format Support
• New Common Dialogs (now for ALL Image Processing functions)
• Additional Features

For more information please read the Medical Imaging overview in the evaluations section

LEAD has also extended its DICOM support to include the following:

• Support for the latest DICOM specification - The version 14 LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging line significantly extends its position as the DICOM market leader by providing support for the latest version of the DICOM specification
• DICOM LUT/Overlay/Palette support - The high-level support for Modality LUT, VOI LUT, Palette Color Image in LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging means developers can implement DICOM Presentation state into an application with ease. LEADTOOLS can also apply the Modality LUT to the image data to further simplify image processing and statistical calculations
• DICOM Print SCU support - Add DICOM printing to an application in hours with the new high-level DICOM Print support
• DICOM Annotation Object support - Store/retrieve DICOM annotations from a dataset and convert them to LEAD Annotation objects and vice versa. Annotations can also be converted to regions of interest for additional statistical calculations and for storing to DICOM Presentation State

LEADTOOLS' Medical Imaging Suite is simply the best toolkit available for creating DICOM Client/Server Applications. Here's why: Full Support for all Service Classes - Easy to implement all possible DICOM Service Classes for a client and/or server:

• DICOM Verification Service Class
• DICOM Storage Service Class
• DICOM Query/Retrieve Service Class
• DICOM Study Content Notification Service Class
• DICOM Patient Management Service Class
• DICOM Study Management Service Class
• DICOM Results Management Service Class
• DICOM Print Management Service Class
• DICOM Media Storage Service Class
• DICOM Storage Commitment Service Class
• DICOM Basic Worklist Management Service Class
• DICOM Queue Management Service Class
• Largest set of hardware manufacturers supported
• Direct support for PACs
• Most comprehensive file format support
• Extensive, ready to use sample source code and executables
• 4 different Programming interfaces - API, C++ Class Library, ActiveX, VCL

LEADTOOLS gives you high-level features that simplify the creation of your DICOM client/server applications. With Medical Imaging Suite, you get:

• High-level functions for initiating and terminating Associations (connections between DICOM applications), automating the process of filling out PDU structures (Protocol Data Units)
• Automatic and transparent conversion of DICOM Data Sets to/from the specific Transfer Syntax required by the associated Application Entities (the connected DICOM client(s) and server(s))
• High-level functions that automate sending DICOM Request and Response Command Sets (Services), greatly simplifying the process of coding application communications
• Complete support for Message Exchange, including DIMSE (DICOM Message Service Element) service user and provider, and Message Exchange Upper Layer Protocol

In addition to special medical features, the Medical Imaging Suite also includes optimized image processing filters, and high performance decompression and viewing of JPEG, LEAD CMP and CCITT G4 image files. With the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite, developers get a comprehensive imaging toolkit which provides support for Annotation (more than 50 objects, all with hyperlink capabilities and security options), Image Processing (Transforms, Filters, Drawing, Region of Interest), Scanning (TWAIN), Color Conversion, Display, Special Effects (choose from more than 2000 effects), Compression, Image Format (import/export), Printing, Internet/intranet imaging, Database imaging, Imaging Common Dialogs, and Screen Capture.

Included programming interfaces: A low level API, C++ Class Library and .NET components. LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging products ship with sample Source code for C/C++, Visual C++ (MFC), C# and VB.NET.

The following products are included with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging products making them the complete development solution.

• LEADTOOLS Multimedia - for video and audio data capture (WDM, VFW, DV) and playback
• LEAD MJPEG Codec - for lossy and lossless real time MJPEG encoding and decoding (including 10-16 bit grayscale)
• LEAD JPEG2000 Codec - for lossy and lossless encoding and decoding of JPEG2000 data (including 10-16 bit grayscale)
• LEAD DirectShow DICOM Read Filter - Supports JPEG2000 and JPEG lossy and lossless compression, RLE and uncompressed data
• LEAD DirectShow DICOM Write Filter - Supports JPEG2000 lossy and lossless, JPEG Lossy (including 12-bit grayscale), JPEG lossless for all bit depths supported in the DICOM standard

Also included are the following LEADTOOLS Components:

LEAD TWAIN

• Use the default user interface included with the TWAIN driver.
• Create your own user interface to the driver interface.
• Bypass the interface entirely for completely automated tasks or batch scanning.
• Control the type of image which is acquired (black & white, b/w with halftone, grayscale, color - as supported by the device).
• Control the resolution (dpi), position , size, and orientation of the image to be acquired.
• Use the Automated Document Feeder for single and multi-page scans, including support for duplex scanning.
• Use supplied events and callbacks to code your own special per-page processing
• Use selection dialogs to allow selection of TWAIN source, or select among multiple TWAIN sources in code.
• Use of native, buffered memory or file transfer modes when acquiring from a TWAIN device.
• Flexibility to get and set all TWAIN v1.9 capabilities that the device's TWAIN driver supports.
• Save of the device's TWAIN capability settings to a template file, helping to save multiple settings of sources and load them as needed.
• Buffered memory transfer mode includes compression support. The scan data is compressed using JPEG, RLE, BITFIELDS, GROUP 3, GROUP 4 or PACKBITS to reduce the data transfer bottle neck.
• Perform the save of the Memory Buffered Transfer data directly to a file.
• Get the Extended Image Info that some TWAIN scanner drivers support. For example, if the scanner driver supports reading barcodes or patch codes, then that information could be retrieved via LEADTOOLS TWAIN support

LEAD PictureBox

• Drag and drop into web pages or windows applications
• Unlimited zooming in and out
• Manual and auto scroll
• Additional viewing modes including: Fit to window, stretch and center
• Control source rectangle for viewing portion of interest
• Interactive zoom to rectangle using the mouse
• Interactive pan of image using the mouse

LEAD Image Processing

• User event notification to add support for visual feedback during image processing (Percentage completion, canceling the operation)
• More than 60 digital filters and transforms
• Smooth, sharpen and edge detection and enhancement
• Modify brightness/contrast/gamma
• Change hue and saturation
• Add noise to one or all color channels
• Resize/rotate using various re-sampling techniques
• Much more!

LEAD Rubberband

Rubber banding is an operation used often in Windows based applications. It can be used for drawing, selecting or moving objects around. This is a general purpose class that can be used in imaging and non-imaging applications. Basically, it gives the user of the application visual feedback and sends the developer events to add additional support or processing.