LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK

What's New in the LEADTOOLS Medical Engine V17.5 Re-mastered
The healthcare industry continues to demand innovation and rapid development capability. This new version of 17.5's Medical Web Viewer Framework and PACS Framework have new major features including cross-platform and mobile device capable viewers, more robust and simpler customization, and a new OEM-ready DICOM Server application with source code.

• New OEM-ready DICOM Storage Server application with Source Code
• New Patient Updater feature includes a patient/study management client that allows users to move, merge, and update patient information using DICOM communication
• New Auto-Copy feature automatically routes retrieved DICOM image data to multiple storage locations
• New Gateway feature acts as a query/retrieve proxy, automatically relaying a single query/retrieve message to any number of specified external DICOM servers
• New Forwarding feature automatically forwards DICOM image data to another PACS server immediately upon storage, or on any schedule
• Full source code provided for customization or branding with your own company logo

Medical Web Viewer Framework

• HTML5 Viewer with window level support
• Improved thin-client layout for mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone

Medical Image Viewer

• Improved reference line support
• New Probe Tool to display pixel information and user text
• New Snap Ruler that allows the ruler to snap to the image, making measurement simpler
• Added customization of the look, style and color of overlay tags and rulers
• New Zoom on Click mouse action
• Added ability to set any number of rows and columns of cells
• Dynamic Zoom which keeps the clicked area visible at all times
• New LUT Spectrum feature which provides a colored lookup table that improves ability to analyze images

Other Enhancements

• Enhanced DICOM Communication support

What's new in LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK V17.5

• Medical Workstation now fully supports customization and localization.  Users can easily change the look and feel or language strings of the Medical Workstation for re-branding or localization purposes.
• New DICOM Modality Worklist (MWL) WCF Service Component for the PACS Framework
• Medical Image Viewer Features and Enhancements
  • Added options for customizing the border of cells in the viewer
  • Exposed more low-level annotation features
  • Image Orientation tag automatically updates based on the current image orientation
  • Added GetScale method, so user can get the current image scale value
  • Added feature to allow the user to change the active sub-cell programmatically
  • Added MatchScale method to allow users to make all the other cells match the scaling value of the specified cell
  • Added Cobb Angle annotation tool
  • Added user interface tools for Image Alpha(Sigmoid, Exponential and Logarithmic)
  • Added VirtualImage property which allows the user to receive advanced details and status regarding the cell. This is useful for MPR, Derivative and Low Memory Usage cells.
  • Empty cells with no assigned image can now be active, utilize tools and display text/tags
  • Added Drag and Drop support for cells
  • New image display and scaling options: UseDpi, FitIfLarger, Stretch, Explode
  • New MPRType property to identify the axis for localization purposes
  • Advanced synchronization tools including multiple series and viewer control instances
  • Added GetPage method to allow user to get the desired frame from any cell type
• 3D Features and Enhancements
  • Added support for Curved MPR/ Panoramic Polygon
  • Added ability to generate and view Paraxial Cuts
  • Added the ability to programmatically set the index of the MPR cell
  • Added ImageLoaded event
• DICOM Features and Enhancements
  • New DLL dedicated to the internal DICOM tables, reducing deployment footprint
  • Ability to load DICOM tables from XML, making customization simpler
  • Get and Set encapsulated documents from memoryand disk
  • Added support for YBR_FULL Photometric Interpretation with uncompressed and RLE-compressed DICOM image pixel data
  • Added support for DICOM JPEG-LS Lossy and Lossless transfer syntaxes

LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging includes everything developers need to create end to end enterprise PACS solutions:

• Includes full support for DICOM messaging to quickly implement any DICOM client and server services.
• DICOM secure communications are made simple to help protect confidential patient information.
• Supports all storage IOD classes and service classes defined in the DICOM version 3 2008 base standard.
• Extensive sample applications with source code are provided to show the implementation of many commonly used DICOM services as service class user (SCU) and service class provider (SCP) perspective.
• Includes several interfaces to meet the needs of any developer. Low level C DLL and C++ class libraries are provided for the most flexibility available in any PACS SDK. Additionally, a high level PACS framework is included. The framework takes care of the behind the scenes coding so you can spend more time on adding additional features and usability.

In addition to PACS, LEAD's imaging support is one of the richest in the industry:

• Supports 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit images including JPEG (8, 10 , 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12-bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full), and single and multi-page.
• LEAD’s Medical Imaging toolkit includes 8-16 bit grayscale display with window leveling using a user defined color map (LUT or palette) or linear gray LUT.
• Thousands of image processing functions supporting the full range of color depths including 12-16 bit grayscale and signed image data.

Also, LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging includes all the features you need to build a full web-based DICOM-enabled viewing application.

LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK Key Features:

• DICOM Data Security
• DICOM Communication
• Medical Image Viewer Control
• Medical Web Viewer Framework
• NEW - LEADTOOLS Media Writer
• NEW – LEADTOOLS Silverlight Image Viewer Control
• NEW – Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• NEW – Window Workflow (WF)
• Enhanced Grayscale Display
• JPEG2000 Compression
• Enhanced Grayscale Processing
• DICOM Basic
• DICOM Data Set
• DICOM Waveform
• DICOM Annotation
• DICOM Digital Signatures
• WPF Standard .NET
• WPF Pro
• WPF Annotations
• Scanning
• General Imaging Features

LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK Additional Feature:

• Medical Multimedia Module
• NEW – Virtual Printer
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
• Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
• Forms Recognition
• PDF OCR Module
• Raster PDF Plug-ins
• JPIP Client & Server
• Barcodes

Why choose to use LEADTOOLS' DICOM support:

• Support for 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit grayscale images including JPEG (8, 10, 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12 bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), JPEG2000 (including lossy and lossless 8-16 bit grayscale images and 24-bit color) Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full, YBR_RCT, YBR_ICT), and single and multi-frame images.
• MPEG-2 Compression in DICOM.
• Complete support for the DICOM 3, including all standard IOD classes and modalities (CR, CT, MR, NM, US, RF, SC, VL, etc.) and VR's (value representations)
• Provides easy implementation and full support for DICOM Basic Directory. High-level objects to create DICOMDIR in few lines of code.
• Change one transfer syntax to another transfer syntax with one function call.
• Automatic recognition of DICOM files (Little-Endian/Big-Endian, Implicit/Explicit VR, etc.) High level and low level functions for easy navigation and manipulation (insert, delete, modify) of Data Sets
• 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 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.
• Use Digital Signature Profiles to ensure data has not been tampered. LEADTOOLS is the first commercial toolkit to add comprehensive support for the DICOM Digital Signature Profiles that include: “Base RSA Digital Signature Profile”, “Creator RSA Digital Signature Profile” and “Authorization RSA Digital Signature Profile”.
• Context Groups support. The use of Coded Concepts in DICOM facilitates unambiguous communication of concepts or terms. LEADTOOLS supports all the context groups defined by the “DICOM Content Mapping Resource (DCMR)”, which is specified by PS 3.16 of the DICOM Standard.
• DICOM Waveforms including electrocardiography (ECG), hemodynamic curve data, cardiac electrophysiology, and audio signals (WAV files).
• Single or multi-frame images (compressed or uncompressed)
• Largest set of hardware manufacturers supported.
• Supports all VR's (Value Representation) in DICOM standard including “Other Float String”.
• High-level and low-level functions for easy navigation and manipulation (insert, delete, modify) of data sets.
• LEADTOOLS automatically adds the Item Delimitation Item, and Sequence Delimitation Item to simplify Nesting of Data Sets (VR of “SQ”).
• Easy to manipulate ordinal positioning of Items (FFFE,E000).
• Simplified handling of repeating groups (multiple overlays and curve data)
• Supports Encapsulated or Native encoding of Pixel Data for Single or multi-frame compressed or uncompressed images.
• Cookie cutter tool: Extract individual slices from a radiographic scanned film (useful for identifying each slice inside a scanned MRI or CT series).
• MRI Brain Analysis Tool: Used to calculate the ratio between the corpus callosm (the white matter in the middle of the brain that looks like the letter X) and the brain sphere.
• WPF Support. LEADTOOLS provides interoperation support between LEADTOOLS and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) images. Developers can harness the robust power of LEADTOOLS extensive file format support and image processing features, while taking advantage of the newest UI development features provided by WPF. LEADTOOLS includes WPF source code examples making the integration of many years of LEADTOOLS imaging expertise into the latest Microsoft WPF technology a simple task.

Programming Interfaces:
Included programming interfaces: .NET class libraries, WCF services, WF activities, WPF XAML controls, Silverlight, C DLL API, C++ class libraries, and COM objects. LEADTOOLS Document, Recognition, Enterprise, Medical and PACS Imaging products include sample source code for C, Visual C++ (MFC), VB, VB.NET and C#. Supported OS: 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows.