PICTools Medical

Access commercially-supported software development libraries to gain industry-leading medical image compression capabilities.

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Get fast, accurate, well-supported compression capabilities with PICTools Medical.

All major medical equipment manufacturers rely on the accuracy and quality of PICTools to process millions of images. Our lossless JPEG addresses the medical industry’s need for non-destructive compression, and is ideal for cardiology and ultrasound applications. 

Support is offered for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, AIX, and Solaris.

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JPEG 2000

    • File Format and Codestream – Part 1
      • Continuous tone compression (1-bit to 24-bit)
      • Provides lossy and lossless compression
    • 3D Volumetric Encoding – Part 2
      • Compress and decompress in accordance with the DICOM standard
      • Supports both lossy and lossless modes, JPEG 2000 raw codestream, and JPX format
      • Supports 24-bit RGB, 8 to 16-bit grayscale
    • Multithreading
      • User-configurable number of threads to optimize performance on multicore CPUs
    • JPIP – Part 9
      • Design and build a JPEG 2000 JPIP implementation
      • Speed up network viewing of user selectable resolutions and areas of interest
      • Provides JPIP APIs for client and server, JPEG 2000 compliant compression and decompression, and JPIP request and receive
      • The PICTools JPIP libraries were used to create many of the image streams in the ISO Part 4 interoperability reference test suite
    • Transcoder
      • Allows many operations without decompressing and recompressing images, eliminating generational loss
      • Change the number of layers, file size, compression rate, overall quality, convert lossless to lossy, re-encode for JPIP transmission, and extract encoded thumbnails

Lossless JPEG

  • Addresses the medical industry’s need for non-destructive compression 
  • Provides fast compression for video performance 
  • Is ideal for cardiology and ultrasound applications
  • Supports 24-bit RGB, 8 to 16-bit grayscale data

 

Lossy JPEG

  • Complete control over luminance, chrominance, and subsampling compression parameters
  • High-speed 1/4, 1/16, 1/64 thumbnail decompression support
  • Enhanced decompression minimizes JPEG block artifacts
  • CMYK, YUV, RGB, 8-bit, and 12-bit grayscale support

JPEG-LS

  • Provides excellent lossless or constrained-loss compression performance
  • Decompression support for non-standard, improperly compressed JLS images
  • Supports single component 2 to 16-bit grayscale images
  • Supports multiple component 24-bit (RGB) images

JPEG-XR

  • Provides support for fully standards based JPEG XR
  • Supports multiple subsampling settings, including familiar medical settings of 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 with cosited and centered options
  • A still image compression algorithm for continuous tone photographic images
  • Features lossy and lossless compression, multiple colorspaces, a wide dynamic range, and extensive metadata support
  • Performance optimized

Medical Image Processing & Editing

  • Overlap filter options
  • Post processing filter strength settings
  • Embedded orientation flags
  • Metadata support
  • Tiling
  • Subband control
  • Buffer to buffer image processing for maximum flexibility
  • The high-performance API offers total control of image processing functions 

PICTools Medical: Compression File Size and Speed Comparison Chart

PICTools Medical Development Environments

  • 32-bit & 64-bit Microsoft Windows
  • 32-bit & 64-bit Solaris SPARC
  • 32-bit & 64-bit Solaris x86
  • 32-bit & 64-bit Linux
  • 32-bit & 64-bit AIX
  • MAC OS X 

Tech Specs for PICTools Medical

Accelerate application development with medical image compression tools. Technical specifications provide developers with information on framework options, compatible programming environments, sample code, and current builds available.

 

Detailed Technical Specs

  • Static and shared dispatcher libraries combined with compressed opcode DLLs enable creation of single file executables. 
  • The product provides exceptional stability and high speed in limited-resource environments and can be used in multi-threaded applications.
  • Programming environments include C/C++.

PICTools Medical Development Environments

PICTools Medical achieves maximum code speed through algorithm and machine code optimizations and is optimized for several chip instruction sets including Intel MMX, PIII, PIV, and IBM PowerPC. The underlying architecture of PICTools allows desired imaging functionality to be efficiently ported to any requested operating system with common interface and operating convention.

Delivers support across multiple environments including:

  • 32-bit & 64-bit Microsoft Windows
  • 32-bit & 64-bit Solaris SPARC
  • 32-bit & 64-bit Solaris x86
  • 32-bit & 64-bit Linux
  • 32-bit & 64-bit AIX
  • MAC OS X

PICTools Medical Architecture

The product includes a shared library that loads operation-specific libraries called opcodes for modular, discrete functionality. Modular opcode design allows application developers to deploy only the opcode needed for the desired imaging functionality. It supports rapid portability and processor-specific speed optimizations on additional platforms.

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