IMIS: A multi-platform software package for telediagnosis and 3D medical image processing

Abstract

We present a project developed in our University in order to provide Medical Imaging Departments with efficient software tools for 3D medical image processing and transmission. In this context, the IMIS software package has been developed, combining, in a modular programming strategy, an easily upgradable graphical user interface, using the Tcl/Tk toolkit, with high performance image processing techniques, such as 3D lossless multiresolution image compression for telediagnosis on narrow-band ISDN networks. IMIS is based on a set of tools allowing the handling of 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance images (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and computed tomography (CT) of functional MRI (fMRI).