Main features include:
• Switch viewing/analysis between many different datasets.
• Image display in axial, sagittal, and/or coronal views (including multi-image montages).
• Display of graphs (line and surface) of data extracted from image viewers.
• Time series graphing of square regions from image viewers.
• Linked image/graph viewing of multiple 3D datasets (e.g., linked scrolling through multiple brains).
• Transformation to Talairach coordinates (12 sub-volume piecewise linear method).
• Computation of activation maps using the "correlation method".
• Color overlay of activation maps onto higher-resolution anatomical images (resampling of lower-resolution functionals is handled on the fly).
• Interactive thresholding of functional overlays.

• AFNI home page (disclaimer)
• Mike Beauchamp's AFNI plugin page

• Creating ROI's in AFNI(disclaimer)

• Sun Microsystems SPARCstations.
• Silicon Graphics Indy, Indigo 2, and Challenge.
• Hewlett Packard 9000/700 Series, 720, 735.
• International Business Machines RS/6000 Series.
• Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha Series.
• IBM PC Compatibles (LINUX).

Cheshire , intended for clinical use, provides an ideal solution for teleradiology, telecardiology, in-hospital view stations and image review for referring physicians.

• MS Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.

analySIS® is available in three expansion levels: DOCU, AUTO and PRO. DOCU has its focus on image acquisition, archiving, documentation, interactive measurements and macro programming. AUTO, as the next higher level of analySIS®, is the standard among image-processing systems against which all others are measured. In addition to the functions available in the Docu version, Auto provides a wealth of image-processing functions such as automatic analysis, morphological operators and the programming language Imaging C. PRO is the most powerful level of analySIS®. It is designed right from the beginning to satisfy the most demanding requirements for image processing and analysis. Its sheer number of available functions and the embedded programming environment set up a framework that offers the latest developments in the field of digital image analysis.

Depending on the specific tasks and requirements, analySIS® can be combined with a number of different hardware and software options. analySIS® can be set up as a turnkey solution or individually configured for highest value. analySIS®, together with the modules, add-ins and interfaces, represents a complete product family. All products in this family are developed with future enhancements in mind.

• Windows® 95/98
• Windows NT™ (Intel)

The full version of Astra Image gives you the following benefits:
Save files in a variety of formats, print images and copy to the clipboard
Printed manual
Free support by email, telephone and fax
Free bugfixes and upgrades to minor versions
Discounts on upgrades to major versions
We can ship Astra Image to you by email and/or disk
Ability to develop Astra Image plug-ins

• Compaq Tru64 UNIX
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX®
• Linux
• Power Macintosh®
• SGI IRIX™
• Sun™ Solaris & Solaris x86
• Windows® 95/98
• Windows NT™ (Alpha, Intel)

Unlike other image processing packages, ENVI boasts a fully-accessible underlying language, the Interactive Data Language (IDL), so you can expand ENVI's features or create your own routines. IDL, a fourth-generation programming language, is so powerful that you can develop the solution you need in a fraction of the time it would take in traditional languages. IDL also includes a vast library of analysis and visualization functions so you can quickly prototype applications and create complete, custom solutions.

• Windows

GIMP is extremely expandedable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plugins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

• Compaq Tru64 UNIX
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX®
• Linux
• Power Macintosh®
• SGI IRIX™
• Sun™ Solaris & Solaris x86
• Windows® 95/98
• Windows NT™ (Alpha, Intel)

• Any JAVA supported platform

The Image Processing Toolbox extends the MATLAB¨ computing environment to provide functions and interactive tools for enhancing and analyzing digital images and developing image processing algorithms. In addition, it facilitates the learning and teaching of image processing techniques in both academic and research settings.

Together, MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox provide scientists, researchers, and engineers with a diverse, flexible set of tools for solving complex imaging problems in disciplines such as aerospace/defense, astronomy, remote sensing, medical and scientific imaging, and materials science. Most functions are implemented in the open MATLAB language, letting you explore and customize existing toolbox algorithms or develop your own.

You can use the toolbox for the restoration of noisy or degraded images, image enhancement for improved intelligibility, blob analysis, and extraction and analysis of image data with 2-D statistics and transforms, as well as to develop complete solutions to challenging image processing problems that involve multidimensional data sets.

2. A 350+ page tutorial "The Image Processing and Analysis Cookbook" that describes and illustrates the step-by-step use of image analysis tools to extract information from the images on the CD. This deals with the use of the drop-in modules as well as standard functions of Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial is a "PDF" or Acrobat file that can be viewed (or printed) complete with formatting and graphics on either a Mac or Windows computer using the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is included. The tutorial is intended to be a hands-on "how to do it" companion. We also strongly recommend the use of "The Image Processing Handbook" 3rd edition, by John C. Russ, published 1998 by CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (isbn number 0-8493-2532-1), which you can purchase for less than US $100 from your local bookseller or Amazon.com.

3. A set of image files that correspond to those in the textbook and tutorial, and are used in the hands-on laboratory component of the Image Analysis Short Course taught each year at N. C. State University and at the Danish Technological Institute. The CD has a collection of more than 300 images (grey scale, binary and color) that illustrate many types of problems that require image processing tools, and the various types of measurements that can be performed. The images are saved as standard TIFF files that can be opened by most image analysis programs. Of course, Photoshop can also be used to apply the Tool Kit routines to other images acquired from your own applications.

4. A complete functional image analysis program that can be used with the plug-ins on either Mac or Windows (95/NT/98). By special arrangement with the publisher we include a complete copy of Digital Darkroom version 1.2. This easy-to-use program allows purchasers to use the Tool Kit even if they do not have Photoshop or one of the other programs that accept Photoshop plug-ins (see compatibility notes below).

The library functions perform filtering, thresholding, arithmetic, logical, and morphological operations. In addition, a number of functions perform linear geometric and linear image transforms. The linear image transforms include the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and the discrete cosine transform (DCT).

The library uses a flexible image format, supporting channels of 1-, 8-, 16-, and 32-bit integer pixels, as well as 32-bit floating-point pixels, with an arbitrary number of channels per image. Conversion to and from the Windows* DIB (device-independent bitmap) image format is supported, as are conversions between color and gray scale.

ImagXpress includes TWAIN scanner support, video frame capture, advanced printing support, and fully-programmable annotations. ImagXpress also offers expandability with add-on tookits for Barcode recognition and printing, Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) and high-speed ISIS scanning. ImagXpress Professional includes CapturePRO for video capture, TwainPRO for low level image scanning, PrintPRO for expanded printing capabilities and NotateXpress for annotation. All of this comes in a clean, consistent programming interface across the various development environments you use. ImagXpress supports your platform of choice with COM objects, lightweight ActiveX controls, and Delphi VCLs and provides samples for Visual Basic, VC++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Access, and HTML.

Main features include:
• Supports 8-bit, 16-bit, float and RGB data types.
• Extendable via user-written Java plugins
• Runs as either an application or an applet.

• Software Development Environment Manage all stages of the software life-cycle, from prototyping to evaluation to deployment.
• System Integration Environment Integrate Complex code into a single seamless environment.
• Visual Programming Environment Rapidly prototype solutions using the visual programming language Cantata.

MATLAB is used in a variety of application areas including signal and image processing, control system design, financial engineering, and medical research. The open architecture makes it easy to use MATLAB and companion products to explore data and create custom tools that provide early insights and competitive advantages. An overview of The MathWorks product family is available.

• MATLAB Home Page (disclaimer)
• comp.soft-sys.matlab newsgroup

• image viewer (supports files of type InterFile, DICOM, Acr/Nema, Analyze, Gif98, INW(RUG), ECAT/Matrix and PIP)
• image type conversion
• clinical protocols for all standard nuclear medicine studies
• ROI and Profile image analysis and masking
• patient management
• reporting and archiving
• local, hospital and internet communication
• internet consultancy on nuclear medicine clinical studies
• acquisition and processing of gamma camera signals
• quality control of gamma cameras

• MEDICView Home Page (disclaimer)

Main features include:
• 2D/3D registration
• fMRI analysis
• scripting
• segmentation
• region of interest analysis
• 3D visualization
• incorporation of SPM 96

• MEDx Home Page (disclaimer)

• MEDx 3.3 User's Guide (disclaimer)

• MEDx Tutorials (disclaimer))

• MEDx Power Point Presentations (disclaimer)

MIPAV is written using the Java programming language and has taken advantage of Java's intrinsic object-oriented capabilities to improve code reuse and functionality and portability. MIPAV is available on any Java-capable operating system, including Windows, Macintosh, Irix, and Solaris.

Main features include:
• Pascal-like macro language
• video capture
• 3D "stacks"

An array-oriented fourth-generation language, PV-WAVE accelerates application development, accommodates most data types, and supports cross-platform development and deployment on UNIX, Windows NT and Windows 95. Along with its Web-enabled architecture, PV-WAVE includes hundreds of comprehensive numerical and statistical algorithms from the IMSL Numerical Libraries, and has a user-friendly GUI.

Features include:
Display of three orthogonal views with cross-references.
Reads DICOM, AFNI and NIAAA's in-house image formats.
Interactive traversal along any of the four dimensions.
Interactive rotations in 3 dimensions.
ROI and mask creation and editing.
Interactive time vector plotting.
Scripting using an embedded Tcl/Tk interpreter.

In the following list you can see an overview of the supported formats:

       Format           Functionality        Remarks 
       Acr/Nema 2.0     Read & Write         Papyrus alike ... 
       Analyze (SPM)    Read & Write         Basically for the use in the SPM
       utility 
       DICOM 3.0        Read & Write         Requires vt-dicom library
       (included) 
       ECAT 6.4         Read & Write         Proprietary format from CTI 
       GIF87a/89a       Read & Write         Well-known format in desktop
       utilities 
       InterFile 3.3    Read & Write         Remarkable with editable text
       header 
       INW (RUG)        Read & Write         Forgotten locally used format