Image Quality Assessment ** Oimage ** Java Advanced Imaging API
PBMPLUS ** readOmatic ** Talairach Daemon ** (*=shareware)
(**=freeware)

 

Name: Image Quality Assessment
NIH Availability: Free
Author: MITRE Corporation
NIH Contact Person: none
Supported Platforms: Macintosh, Windows, Unix, Linux
Brief Description: Two distinctly different programs for objective image quality assessment:

sineMTF - computes the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of a digitizer, scanner, digital camera, or printer by processing the image of a sine wave target or bar target. The MTF is a well-known fundamental image quality metric which measures a device's spatial frequency response. (source and executables for Mac, Windows, Unix, Linux)

IQM (cp) - computes a relative quality value directly from any image, based on the image power spectrum weighted by a visual function; does not require targets or reference images. (executables for Mac, Windows)

For more Information:

• Image Quality HomePage (disclaimer)

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Name: Oimage
NIH Availability: Free
Author: John Ostuni
NIH Contact Person: John Ostuni
Supported Platforms: UNIX based
Brief Description: Oimage is a C++ class that greatly simplifies I/O and memory allocation without interfering with your regular C++ code.
For more Information:

• Oimage Home Page (disclaimer)

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Name: Java Advanced Imaging API
NIH Availability: Free
Author: Java Advanced Imaging API's Functionality:
  • Imaging Operations:
    More than 80 image processing operations, most of which are native optimized for performance

  • Image Formats and Data Types:
    Byte, UShort, Short, 32-bit int, floats/double, n-banded images

  • Image File I/O:
    Supports BMP, GIF, FPX, JPEG, PNG, PNM, TIFF.
    Please Note: There is a separate Java Specification Request(JSR) for image I/O in development. Please refer to http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr015/index.html

  • Remote Imaging:
    Support for Remote Method Innovation(RMI) and Internet Imaging Protocol(IIP). Image Retrieval using InputStream or URL

  • Ability to mix images and graphics:
    Interoperates with the Java 2D API to mix overlay graphics data with images.

For more Information:

• Java Advanced Imaging (disclaimer)
• Main JavaSoft page (disclaimer)

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Name: PBMPLUS
NIH Availability: Free
Author:
NIH Contact Person: None
Supported Platforms: UNIX based
Brief Description: PBMPLUS is a toolkit for converting various image formats to and from portable formats, and therefore to and from each other.
For more Information:

• PBMPLUS Home Page
(disclaimer)

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Name: readOmatic
NIH Availability: Free
Author: TomoVision
NIH Contact Person: None
Supported Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Brief Description:
readOmatic is a unique freeware which allows your desktop computer to read medical data tapes. The software can read DAT tapes comming from GE's scanners, 8mm tapes from Picker's scanners as well as TAR format tapes.

readOmatic can now read the Magneto Optical disks from Siemens and GE.

Medical professionals and researchers who are working with Picker, Siemens or General Electric imaging equipment are invited to download this useful program.

ReadOmatic will read the tapes coming from these scanners:
  • GE HiLight and HiSpeed
  • GE Genesis
  • GE Sigma 5.x
  • Picker's IQ/PQ
  • Any scanner using the TAR (Tape Archive) format


    • ReadOmatic will read the MOD and WORM disks coming from these scanners:
  • Siemens Impact/Vision/Magnetom systems
  • GE PACE systems
  • GE Signa systems
    • For more Information:

    • readOmatic Home Page
    (disclaimer)

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    Name: Talairach Daemon
    NIH Availability: Free
    Author: Jack L. Lancaster, Peter T. Fox, Shawn Mikiten, Lacy Rainey
    NIH Contact Person: None
    Supported Platforms: Java Based
    Brief Description: The Talairach Daemon (TD) is a high-speed database server for querying and retrieving data about human brain structure over the internet. The core components of this server are a unique memory-resident application and memory-resident databases. The memory-resident design of the TD server provides high-speed access to its data. This is supported by using TCP/IP sockets for communications and by minimizing the amount of data transferred during transactions. By keeping most transactions to a low number of bytes (less than 50 generally), even slow throughput network transfers (1 Kbyte/sec) should have reasonable response times.
    For more Information:

    • Talairach Daemon Home Page (disclaimer)

    • Research Imaging Center's Project Page (disclaimer)