ImageGear Medical Features

• Comprehensive Image Control - ImageGear Medical is a DICOM SDK that provides a comprehensive level of control over DICOM files including support for DICOM waveforms, metadata handling, presentation state DICOM, overlays, and complete grayscale LUT control.
• Fast & Complete Imaging - Fast code and well-structured APIs allow you to integrate and manage functions for processing both still image and video files, scanning, compression, annotation, printing, and more.
• Over 100 File Formats Supported - This DICOM Medical SDK supports over 100 medical image and document formats, including raster and vector images, DICOM, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PDF, TIFF, HD Photo, Camera RAW, and more.
• DICOM - Users are empowered to create and view DICOM files and utilize robust annotation controls for overlay creation. It supports DICOM Cine loop, waveforms, and presentation state DICOM, offers options to easily control all facets of image display and printing, and uses grayscale LUT to enhance X-rays, scans, and more. It includes integrated pseudo-coloring which allows for mapping high level grayscale LUT to 24-bit RGB LUT for display on non-high gray displays.
• APIs - Features a high-level product API allowing the details of the DICOM standard to be abstracted, while still allowing complete control over the file content. Includes a simplified API for working with the DICOM data sets, while providing complete control over the dataset values.
• File Formats & Compression - ImageGear Medical supports over 100 medical image and document formats including raster and vector images, DICOM, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PDF, TIFF, HD Photo, Camera RAW, and more. Powerful control parameters allow you to control the creation of your file. Abstract the details of each DICOM file with an easy to use high-level API. It easily works with a wide variety of supported file formats across many bit depths in your applications and creates batch conversion processes and eliminates compatibility issues before they arise. It converts an image from one format to another with ease and converts bitmap images to scalable, editable images in seconds.
• DLL Tools - ImageGear Medical features a call-back mechanism for adding your own algorithms and allows access to each line of an image during loading and saving. The replacement of IO functions (read, write, seek, etc.) with your own functions, if desired, is supported. The product has the ability to load images from an offset location within a file, save images to files at specified offsets (data binding), decode images using various compression algorithms without specific format headers, and import/export images from/to various types of memory formats.
  • Reads from memory, path, URL, FTP, port, and more
  • Reads any sub-region of an image
  • Grants access to all file metadata while loading
• Extensive PDF/PS Support - ImageGear Medical supports Adobe® PDF v1.7 and PS v3, and offers vector and 3D PDF/PS support. Users can read, write, display, and edit PDF content within DICOM files. It also offers comprehensive PDF API for native PDF annotations, searchable text, and more. Analyze for PDF/A and PDF/X compliance.
  • Raster Formats
    • Easily converts to and from various raster image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, and PDF
    • Quickly converts various images into one standard format for consistent viewing
    • Build applications to convert to and from bitmap images with various bit depths, palettes, and compression and encoding options
  • Vector Formats - It includes enhanced reading, writing, and rendering of vector images and reads and writes DWG and DXF file formats for release version 16 of AutoCAD including AutoCAD 2006.
    • Creates apps that render 3D wireframe objects
    • Creates apps that render solid 3D objects with adjustable lighting for shading purposes
    • Supports reading and writing SVG file format
• Document Image Processing & Editing - It allows users to work with advanced filtering including sharpen, smooth, and convolution. It also supports image correction such as despeckle and deskew, image maintenance such as crop, resize, thumbnail creation, encryption, and decryption, as well as image transformation such as rotate.
  • Image Cleanup
    • Hole Punch Removal
    • Line Removal
    • Dotted Line Removal
    • Clean Borders
    • Negate
    • Auto-Crop
    • Image Dilation
    • Erosion
  • Mathematical Morphology
    • Edge Detection
    • Noise Removal
    • Image Enhancement
    • Image Segmentation
    • Opening
    • Closing
• Photo and Color Image Processing & Editing
  • Image
    • Image maintenance, such as crop, resize, thumbnail creation, encryption, and decryption
    • Image transformation such as rotate
    • Advanced image processing methods such as adjust brightness and contrast and reduce or promote bit depth
    • Advanced filtering including sharpen, smooth, and convolution
    • Region of interest support permits specification of a shape, such as ellipse, polygon, freehand, or a 1-bit mask for identifying pixels to include/exclude from image processing algorithms
  • Color
    • ICC color profile support allows for accurate color display
    • Pantone channels support for true image representation
    • Image analysis provides a histogram-generating function while another function provides a count of different colors in the specified rectangle of an image
• Printing - ImageGear Medical overcomes several inherent print driver limitations ensuring the highest possible print quality. It offers capabilities including sizing, color correction, and single or multi-page printing. Available for:
  • .NET
  • WinForms
  • ASP.NET
  • WPF
  • DLL (.NET and C/C++ editions)
• Scanning
  • TWAIN - Easily working with TWAIN v1.6, v1.7, v1.8, and v1.9, ImageGear programmatically controls the display of the TWAIN UI. It quickly defines the TWAIN transfer mode and easily interfaces with the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) for multi-page scanning capabilities. It includes high-level functions that provide quick implementation of superior TWAIN support without a steep learning curve.
    • Controls all scanner capabilities within your program
    • Interfaces with TWAIN data source listing
    • Indicates the brightness and contrast during acquisition
    • Defines the resolution for acquisition
    • Offers a single call function to initiate the scanning process
    • Uses events to control the scanning process
  • ISIS Scanning - ImageGear provides complete control over all high-speed ISIS®-driven scanners supported by EMC Corporation’s PixTools®. The product captures data from paper and electronic documents and delivers it into enterprise applications. In addition, it manages scanner features such as display, file writing, and printing.
• Image Viewing & Display - Available in .NET (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET) and Windows DLL ImageGear Toolkits, it has integrated controls for image scrolling and zooming.  Shortening development efforts by using GUI functions that simplify the implementation of several sophisticated GUI features, the product includes GUI features such as common dialogs for image loading, saving, processing, and more. A wide array of layout options and high-speed display offer complete control over how your application displays images like:
  • Apply anti-aliasing to smooth the image display
  • Multi-planar reconstruction display controls to assemble and manipulate MPR Display
• Annotation - Available for .NET / WinForms / ASP.NET / WPF, and Windows DLL (.NET and C and C++ editions), it offers easy to implement UI elements with XML-based annotation for images and medical data. Providing comprehensive annotation support including adding, editing, burning-In, and deleting. ImageGear enables annotation on images and documents such as lines, arrows, highlighting, sticky notes, and much more. The feature provides the ability to annotate images and documents, including “sticky” note attachments, highlights, arrows, markers, free-form text, and other indicators. It also includes redaction capabilities for censoring sensitive documents. Annotations can be merged with an image or kept in a separate file and overlaid on the image at display time. In this way, the original image is never directly altered.