LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK v.15Includes Unicode APIs, C++ Class Libraries, .NET Class Libraries and COM for Win32 and x64. ActiveX, VCL and .NET 1.1 are also available, click here.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes hand-picked and optimized features to meet the specific needs of medical imaging application development, such as full DICOM dataset support, support for 8-16 bit grayscale, and 12 and 16 bit image processing and display with window leveling and LUT processing. DICOM 3, the industry standard medical imaging format/protocol is fully and completely supported, allowing programmers access to medical images retrieved from digital imaging modalities such as CT and MR scanners.

LEAD's DICOM imaging support is the richest in the industry supporting 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit images including JPEG (8, 10 , 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12-bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full), and single and multi-page images. LEAD’s Medical Imaging toolkit includes 8-16 bit grayscale display with window leveling. Window leveling is a linear conversion from stored pixel values to values to be displayed; LEADTOOLS can map the stored pixel values of interest using a user defined color map (using a LUT or Palette) or linear gray LUT.

Also, LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes all the features you need to build a full web-based DICOM-enabled viewing application.

LEADTOOLS' DICOM support is simply the best, here's why:

• Support for 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit grayscale images including JPEG (8, 10, 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12 bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), JPEG2000 (including lossy and lossless 8-16 bit grayscale images and 24-bit color) Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full, YBR_RCT, YBR_ICT), and single and multi-frame images.
• MPEG-2 Compression in DICOM.
• Complete support for the DICOM 3, including all standard IOD classes and modalities (CR, CT, MR, NM, US, RF, SC, VL, etc.) and VR's (value representations)
• Provides easy implementation and full support for DICOM Basic Directory. High-level objects to create DICOMDIR in few lines of code.
• Change one transfer syntax to another transfer syntax with one function call.
• Automatic recognition of DICOM files (Little-Endian/Big-Endian, Implicit/Explicit VR, etc.) High level and low level functions for easy navigation and manipulation (insert, delete, modify) of Data Sets
• DICOM LUT/Overlay/Palette support. The high-level support for Modality LUT, VOI LUT, Palette Color Image in LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging means developers can implement DICOM Presentation state into an application with ease. LEADTOOLS can also aapply the Modality LUT to the image data to further simplify image processing and statistical calculations.
• DICOM Annotation Object support. Store/retrieve DICOM annotations from a dataset and convert them to LEAD Annotation objects and vice versa. Annotations can also be converted to regions of interest for additional statistical calculations and for storing to DICOM Presentation State.
• Use Digital Signature Profiles to ensure data has not been tampered. LEADTOOLS is the first commercial toolkit to add comprehensive support for the DICOM Digital Signature Profiles that include: “Base RSA Digital Signature Profile”, “Creator RSA Digital Signature Profile” and “Authorization RSA Digital Signature Profile”.
• Context Groups support. The use of Coded Concepts in DICOM facilitates unambiguous communication of concepts or terms. LEADTOOLS supports all the context groups defined by the “DICOM Content Mapping Resource (DCMR)”, which is specified by PS 3.16 of the DICOM Standard.
• DICOM Waveforms including electrocardiography (ECG), hemodynamic curve data, cardiac electrophysiology, and audio signals (WAV files).
• Single or multi-frame images (compressed or uncompressed)
• Largest set of hardware manufacturers supported.
• Supports all VR's (Value Representation) in DICOM standard including “Other Float String”.
• High-level and low-level functions for easy navigation and manipulation (insert, delete, modify) of data sets.
• LEADTOOLS automatically adds the Item Delimitation Item, and Sequence Delimitation Item to simplify Nesting of Data Sets (VR of “SQ”).
• Easy to manipulate ordinal positioning of Items (FFFE,E000).
• Simplified handling of repeating groups (multiple overlays and curve data)
• Supports Encapsulated or Native encoding of Pixel Data for Single or multi-frame compressed or uncompressed images.
• Cookie cutter tool: Extract individual slices from a radiographic scanned film (useful for identifying each slice inside a scanned MRI or CT series).
• MRI Brain Analysis Tool: Used to calculate the ratio between the corpus callosm (the white matter in the middle of the brain that looks like the letter X) and the brain sphere.
• WPF Support. LEADTOOLS provides interoperation support between LEADTOOLS and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) images. Developers can harness the robust power of LEADTOOLS extensive file format support and image processing features, while taking advantage of the newest UI development features provided by WPF. LEADTOOLS includes WPF source code examples making the integration of many years of LEADTOOLS imaging expertise into the latest Microsoft WPF technology a simple task.

Additional products included to add value to LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging:

• LEADTOOLS JPEG2000 - Supports JPEG2000 lossy and lossless for all bit depths defined by the DICOM standard.

General Imaging Features

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging adds 8-16 bit grayscale support, and 48 and 64 bit color functionality to the Raster Imaging Pro features to make the Medical Imaging a complete imaging solution. Other general imaging features include: Image Processing, Color Conversion, Display, Special Effects (choose from more than 2000 effects), Compression, Image Format (import/export), Printing, Internet/intranet imaging (Web Forms), Database imaging, Imaging Common Dialogs and Screen Capture.

Programming Interfaces

Included programming interfaces: A low level API, C++ Class Library, COM objects and .NET Class Libraries. LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro, Document and Medical Imaging products ship with sample source code for C/C++, Visual C++ (MFC), VB, C# and VB.NET. Supported OS: Windows 98/2000/Me/Xp/Vista

With the purchase of LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro, Document and Medical Imaging v.15, programmers are eligible to receive the following additional programming interfaces ActiveX, VCL, and .NET 1.1 (in versions 14.5) by requesting it at the time of purchase. LEAD continues to support and maintain v.14.5 of the ActiveX, VCL and .NET 1.1 interfaces.

Related Products

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK	†$4495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite	†$7995		Free Trial

†Marked toolkits require runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative.