o Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME, UNIX (Sun, SGI, HP, IBM, DEC Alpha) or Intel-based Linux
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Mayo Foundation http://www.mayo.edu/bir/;
Analyze Direct: http://www.analyzedirect.com
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Analyze is an integrated, comprehensive software system
developed by the Biomedical Imaging Resource, useful in a variety of
multimodality, multidimensional biomedical imaging and scientific visualization
applications. These integrated suites of complementary tools for fully
interactive display, manipulation, and measurement of multidimensional
biomedical images have been used in applications involving many different
imaging modalities, including CT, MRI, SPECT, PET, ultrasound and digital
microscopy.
o Segmentation: http://www.analyzedirect.com/products/tour/images/screenshots/Segmented Objects.jpg
o Image Fusion: http://www.analyzedirect.com/products/tour/images/screenshots/Fusion.jpg
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Volume Render:
http://www.analyzedirect.com/products/tour/images/screenshots/Volume
Render.JPG
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o Analyze
Main Control Panel
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Launching pad for all Analyze programs, either from
menus or power bar icons.
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Configurable, multiple power bar(s) for iconic
representations of programs.
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Control canvas for loaded volume images with iconic
representation of images.
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Configurable loaded volume location for multiple,
independent sessions.
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System resource monitor (disk, memory, time, etc.)
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Powerbar editor and icon layout facility
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Support for multiple user preferences (interface
options, etc.)
o Image
Data Retrieval and Management
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Import/export of standard image file formats and
many commercial scanner formats.
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Conversion to/from over 30 standard image formats,
including the DICOM standard.
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Template for specification of image information for
unknown formats.
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Automated construction of volume image files from
groups of individual image files.
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High fidelity, rapid image
compression/decompression using wavelets.
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Access to tape devices for I/O of image data
in many formats.
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Graphical file manager with iconic representation of
images and other file types.
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Direct drag and drop to/from the Analyze file
manager and other Analyze programs.
o Image
Data Loading and Storing
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Support for native image file formats without need
for conversion.
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Volume image resizing based on automated isotropic
sampling (noncubic resizing).
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Interactive subregioning, flipping, and padding of
volume image.
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Data type conversion with intensity windowing
or thresholding.
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Direct output to any supported file format.
o 2-D
Image Generation and Display
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Interactive reformatting and display of multiplanar
images.
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Interactive intensity windowing.
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Interactive dissection and intersection through 3-D
volumes.
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Interactive oblique images through 3-D volumes.
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Image volume reformatting along any arbitrary
oblique axis.
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Interactive generation of "curved" images and
radial images.
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Cine movie displays with multiple panels,
variable size, and speed control.
o 3-D
Image Generation and Display
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Fully interactive volume rendering of 3-D
images.
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Both transmission and reflection raycasting
models.
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Depth, gradient, composited and phong shaded
surfaces.
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Voxel and object compositing with
transparency.
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Divergent perspective ray casting/rendering.
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Interactive colorizing and voxel texture mapping.
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Interactive, graphical control of all divergent
viewing specifications.
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Control of multiple viewing positions (cameras).
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Sequence generation between camera positions
for cine fly-throughs (e.g., virtual endoscopy).
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Variable illumination and angle-of-view.
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Variable render masks and dynamic preview
modes.
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Radial cylindrical and stereo-pair rendering.
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Maximum intensity, integrated and surface
projections.
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Numerical projection rendering.
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Multiplanar dissection and subregioning.
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Interactive orthogonal and oblique
sectioning.
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Manual editing and automatic definition of objects.
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Rendering of combined or individual segmented
objects.
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Interactive rendered object manipulation.
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Mirror image rendering for independent
objects.
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Linear and curvilinear surface measurements.
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Direct surface area and volumetric
measurements.
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Powerful, flexible movie generator with
control of frame-to-frame updates of volume rendering parameters (e.g.,
rotations, dissections, dissolutions, etc.).
o 3-D
Model Generation and Display
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Automatic extraction of contours from isosurfaces or
objects.
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Output to common contour file formats (IGES, SLC,
ASCII list).
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Surface extraction from voxel-based
structures using advanced algorithms:
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Deformable model with adaptive surface fitting for
surface extraction.
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Marching cubes surface extraction.
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Based on user-specification of a given number of
desired polygons (polygonal budget)
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Output to common surface file formats (IGES,
DXF, OBJ, IV, STL, VRIO, VRML, POLY, PATRAN).
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Model viewer for viewing multiple extracted
surfaces (wireframe and shaded).
o Image
Processing
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Image Calculator - metaphor of hand-held
calculator for powerful algebraic and boolean operations on images.
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Formula design and execution for customized 2-D and
3-D image processing.
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Image algebra for combining images from
formulas.
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Mathematical, logical, and transcendental
operations.
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3-D matrix operations and geometric
transformations.
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Linear and adaptive histogram operations.
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Spatial and frequency domain image
processing.
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User-defined convolution kernels.
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Inhomogeneity correction based on statistical
means filtering.
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Interactive, graphic-based design of custom
filters.
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2-D and 3-D FFT and deconvolution
routines.
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Image transformation and compression using
wavelets.
o Image
Segmentation
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Interactive manual object segmentation.
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2-D and 3-D region growing for object
segmentation.
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2-D and 3-D math morphology for object
segmentation.
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Automatic edge contour extraction.
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Automated segmentation based on 3-D
morphological processing.
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User definition of bounded region on selected image(s)
within volume to condition segmentation.
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Output of binary or masked grayscale
segmented volume to other Analyze programs.
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Registration and Fusion
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Fusion (registration and integration) of
multimodal images.
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Intra- and inter-modality registration.
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Registration using advanced normalized mutual
information maximization.
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Permits registration without need for prior
segmentation.
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Registration using surface matching of common
surfaces.
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Efficient section-to-section registration for
3-D volumes of serial images.
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Interactive plotting and measurement of line
and trace profiles.
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Interactive definition of multiple regions of
interest.
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Selection and automatic sampling of regions
of interest.
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Measurement of dimensions and densities.
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Measurement of regional shape and texture.
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ASCII data file format for exporting to standard
analysis programs.
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Analysis of tree structures (lengths, branching
angles, cross-sectional areas).
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Surface area and volume measurement by
stereology.
o Ancillary
Functionality
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Interactive screen editor with text, labels and
graphics.
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Hardcopy printing of text and images,
including full color postscript.
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Extensive interactive color definition and
manipulation.
o Documentation
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On-line, context sensitive help documentation
and tutorials.
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Documentation in HTML format, use with web browsers.
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File Formats
§ Analyze-Specific File Formats: AnalyzeAVW, AnalyzeAVW Volume Files, Analyze Image (7.5), Analyze Object Maps, Analyze (7.5) Screen Files.
§ Standard Radiological File Formats: DICOM, ACR-NEMA, PAPYRUS, INTERFILE.
§ Vendor-Specific Radiological File Formats: GE Advantage, GE Signa MRI, GE 9800 CT, GE Advance PET, GE Starcam, Siemens CT, Siemens MAGVIS, Siemens/CTI PET, IMATRON (EBCT), SMIS.
§ Common Raster File Formats: BMP, GIF, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, PNG, TARGA, PIC, SGI rgb, Sun Rasterfiles, XBM, XWD, PostScript.
§ Common Movie File Formats: QUICKTIME, YUV.
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Output surface file formats: Alias, IGES, SLC,
ASII list, DXF, OBJ, IV, STL, VRIO, VRML, POLY, SSD, POGO, PATRAN, Inventor,
Autocad.
