Analyze

Analyze from Mayo clinic . Provides an environment for the interactive visualisation and manipulation of 2-D, 3-D and 4-D biomedical images. An integrated set of tools is provided to allow data to be interrogated in both two and three dimensions. Three dimensional rendering tools are integrated with two dimensional orthogonal displays to allow real time reconstruction of conventional 2D. ANALYZE provides all the tools, including image registration, to truely support multi-modal image analysis. Tissue characterisation from multiple MRI, CT X-ray, and Nuclear medicine data is available as an interactive tool. Filtration program allow data preconditioning from statistical spatial filtering to minimise noise, and advanced 3D frequency domain deconvolution of the point spread function of a confocal microscopy system.

Interactive 2-D image display: Display of multiple images with variable size control; Mouse driven intensity windowing; Rapid generation of orthogonal images from 3-D volumes; Display of 3-D volume as a cube with control of size, intensity, range, angle-of-view and interactive dissections along orthogonal planes; Generation anddisplay of arbitrary oblique planar images through 3-D volumes; Interactive generation of "curved" images and/or radial image sections through images traced on orthogonal images; Rapid display of images in cine movie loops.

3-D Image segmentation: Semi-automatic segmentation using advanced morphology operations; Manual editing and automatic connection/deletion of multiple objects using region growing; 3D image editing and object definition; Multi-modal image classification and object definition.

Advanced 3-D image manipulation: Volume rendering using ray casting to display 3-D images from volumetric data. A complete suite of facilities is provided: Depth, depth gradient, grey scale and gray scale gradient shaded surfaces; Maximum intensity projection with optional depth weighting. Variable illumination and angle of view; Dynamic viewpoint manipulation; Transparency for overlying surface structures; 3D interaction between objects and orthogonal 2D slices; Multiple rendering parameters on different regions of the same display; Combined display of multiple segmented objects using different rendering parameters and colours.

Interactive surface labelling: Surface rendering for display of shaded surfaces from contours extracted from segmented image data; Surface smoothing and enhancement based on local neighbour characteristics within the data; Display and output of surface contour profiles; ASCII file output of surface normals for export to CAD/CAM or other design or prosthetic applications.

Multi-modal Image Analysis: Geometric image registration across multiple modalities using object surfaces or point files. Multi-modal image analysis and segmentation. Fused image generation and display. Cross modal object display - Bone from CT X-ray with soft tissue MRI.

Image & Data Manipulations: Linear combinations of images using algebraic operators; Pseudo transparent addition of multimodal data; Spatial and frequency domain image processing using standard and user defined filter functions. Histogram operations. Manual object segmentation using thresholding, tracing and erasing. Semi-automated, interactive boundary detection for object segmentation. Automatic edge contour extraction. 2-D and 3-D math morphology operators. 2-D and 3-D image transformation compression using wavelets.

Image measurement: Plotting of line and trace profiles including 3-D tracing. Region growing and spline region definitions. 2D and 3D region of interest definition. Selection and automatic sampling of regions of interest with image parameters. Interactive regional volume calculation. Regional shape and texture analysis. Data plotting and statistical analysis. 2-D and 3-D shape measurement tools. Multi spectral image classification tools for multimodal data characterisation.

Operators toolbox: Escape and return to UNIX shell to run user developed programs. Macro facility to record and rerun display and analysis sessions. Magnifying glass for magnification of different areas of the screen at different sizes. Full control of colour palette. Tex generation.

Image review: B/W & Colour postscript printer support. Multi panel cine movie. Save facility for 24 bit RGB images for review or advanced printing.

Software development: Support of developments of Analyze program extensions simple user defined menu builder. Within the Analyze documentation you will receive a sample 'C' code program to help you develop your own utilities. Access to Analyze shared memory from external program and interface building tools.

Data types and structures: As an inherently modality independent environment Analyze naturally allows the comparison and the fusion of data collected from different sites or scanners, or from different modalities. CNSoftware can assist you with porting data into Analyze by developing additional file conversion utilities. File import facility for: IGE Signa, Advantage windows, 9000 & 9800; Siemens Magnatom; ACR/NEMA; Interfile; Papyrus; TIFF included. Within the Analyze documentation you will receive a sample 'C' code program to develop your own import file utilities. Analyze is fully compatible, for file import, with the widely accepted ACR-NEMA file structure and the Papyrus format. These have been adopted by many scanner manufactures including IGE; Phillips and Siemens and which the majority of scanners will support as a file downloading format. Analyze will support a wide range of data resolutions including binary; 8 bit; 16 bit; 32 bit; and 64 bit data. All measurements are made at full data resolution irrespective of the display resolution which may be adopted. Import/export from standard image formats, TIFF; Sunraster; PCX; GIF; PPM etc.

Confidence: Developed at the MAYO FOUNDATION'S Biomedical Imaging Resource, Analyze allows you to benefit from more than 15 years experience in visualisation of biomedical data and to have a software team of 15 members behind your imaging applications.

Value: The independent workstation approach offered by Analyze allows for more productive use of scanner systems by allowing data analysis and research to be carried out without requiring access to the scanner console. Where not all modalities are present at a single site Analyze allows the maximum value from externally contracted studies by allowing referring clinicians full access to the data on their patients. Staff can also develop and maintain their skills in the full range of data modalities even when these are not directly available.

Training: All new purchasers receive a two day training course.

Research and Collaboration: Training of new staff with new data modalities and new imaging approaches such as 3-D, is a realistic proposition with Analyze. For senior clinicians the independence offered by Analyze means that data collected over the years of clinical study and research can move with the clinician from hospital to hospital. Collaboration between clinicians and scientists at different institutions is greatly facilitated by the harmonisation of data display which can be achieved by using a standard resolution and colour palette in Analyze.

Upgradability: Analyze is supplied as an upgradable product. Entry into the upgrade program, at the time of purchase, is available for an annual payment of $2000. Including a further 2 day training course. Analyze is available to Clinical and Scientific sites for $16,000.