LEADTOOLS v19 Medical SDKs updated

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK features include comprehensive DICOM data set support, 8-16 bit extended grayscale image support, image annotation, specialized extended grayscale image display such as window level and LUT processing, and medical-specific image processing. Other features include lossless JPEG compression, and signed and unsigned image data processing.

The Medical Imaging range of products include:

• LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite
• LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Module
• LEADTOOLS Dental Display Module

Updates in v19

• Enhanced HTML5 Medical Viewer - Numerous customer requests have been included in this release such as adding structured display and templates technology. Additional features include rendering encapsulated PDF documents in a viewer frame, and users can now upload DICOM to the server directly from the viewer. This latest update also provides many speed upgrades, better spyglass functionality and support to load all types of images such as CT, MR, and MG.
• Multi-Resolution and Tiled Image Technology - The HTML5 Medical Web Viewer now includes new multi-resolution and tiled image (MRTI) technology, which optimizes the delivery of large, extremely high-resolution (up to 1TB) images, including microscopy and pathology images. MRTI intelligently serves a portion and resolution of the image based on the specific client request. This saves bandwidth, reduces memory requirements and increases the overall efficiency of the entire system.
• WADO and DICOMweb Interface - Provides support for DICOM WADO, including WADO-URI, WADO-WS and DICOMweb (RESTful DICOM Services). Developers can use the API to directly access patient/study related data stored in third-party PACS or expose PACS data to direct third-party access using the DICOM defined HTTP protocol standard, including DICOM data storage (STOW-RS) over the web.
• New Java Libraries for Windows and Linux - Added support for OCR, Documents library services, Document Writers, Document Converter, vector and document formats such as PDF and DOCX, and SANE scanning.
• Document Viewer for Linux - Includes rich-document viewing features such as text search, annotation, memory-efficient paging, inertial scrolling and vector display. Supports viewing PDF, MS-Office, AutoCad DWG/DXF and many vector/raster formats.
• Document Writers for Linux - Create PDF, PDF/A, DOCX, RTF, TEXT and ALTOXML from SVG input. Other technologies within LEADTOOLS that create SVG, such as OCR, can leverage the Document Writers to save these document formats.
• Document Converter for Linux - Create powerful, automated document conversion, archival and delivery systems. LEADTOOLS’ Document Converter technology uses a combination of raster, OCR and Document Writers technologies to convert images and documents to PDF, PDF/A, DOCX, RTF, TEXT and SVG.
• Improved Advantage OCR Engine - Enhanced performance in both accuracy and speed. Upgrades have been made for several core features including Latin and Korean language recognition, auto-zone for images with noise and graphics, and preprocessing of noisy images. Enhancements to foreground and background color detection, font type recognition, and a brand-new serif and sans-serif font typeface detection mean generated documents more closely resemble the original images.
• Advanced J2K Technology - Optimizes loading of heavily tiled J2K and TIFF J2K files. Expands TIFF J2K technology by adding functions to enumerate and load sub-resolutions of J2K data encapsulated in TIFF.
• New Features Added to Annotation Technology - Snap-to-grid and alignment UI features have been added to provide image markup formatting features usually only found in word processing and presentation applications.
• New Image Processing Functions - Salt & Pepper Noise Removal and UnWarp image processing functions are now available. The UnWarp function removes the distortion in an image of a cylindrical object, as if removing a label from off of the cylinder and flattening it out.

About LEAD Technologies

LEAD Technologies is a privately held company founded in 1990 by Moe Daher and Rich Little. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LEAD was established to commercialize Mr. Daher's inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology. With a rich history of over twenty years, LEAD has established itself as the world's leading provider of digital imaging software development toolkits.