Build 410 is released.

 1. Compiled and link the latest DCMTK 3.6.7   as DLLs.  Static libs (non-DLL) linkage is not working at the moment. Posted a request at the developers forum.

2. Fvxdcm_DC.cpp : corrected the handling of  VR_AS and VR_UI.

3. Deep verification of FVX file save:  in addition to byte-for-byte comparison with the internal MemFile, we also reload the FVX document and compare it on the entity level.

4. FVX file now contains the Build# that created it.

5. Finally linked DCMTK 3.6.7 statically (by fixing CMake script defect)

 

Build 409B is released.

1. Fixed defect in MainMenu>File>User Options dialog box.

2. Added the ABT subtest for the User Options dialog box.

FireVoxel Build 409A is released.

 1. REAL volume compression: fixed heap corruption defect (TAB compression).

2. Removed UI   User Options {Compress REAL,Compress INT}.  It is always compressed from now on.  This is to simplify options for the user and simplify troubleshooting.

Build 409 is released.

 1. New codec for REAL volumes as FVX entity. Substantial improvement over the previous codec.

2. When FVX document saved, the REAL volume entity is always saved compressed independently of the UserOptions settings for compression state. This is to simplify the optimal saving of the files and minimizing storage\transfer times.

Build 408 is released

 1. Lung Segmentation : added the "Minimal Slice Thickness" parameter to the dialog and processing. This helps to remove elongated protrusions.

2. Bical NUC:  enabled processing on single slice volumes when other than {VA_BICALSEG_GRAD} style is selected.

3. FVX document load : fixed the defect when "Load Dynamic Model" option = FALSE. This also fixed the defect when BM2 module was not able to update the batch models.

4. Added [MinVal,MaxVal] to the list of "First Order Radiomics features".

5. When outputting the Radiomics measurements : if only the First Order features are specified we don't out the GLMsys and Distance settings.

6. Loading various curves throughout the FireVoxel (several function) : removed the fixed limit {10K} on the number of allowed timepoints.

7. Optimized the LoadTacFile function to accommodate very large number of timepoints. Added the progress bar.

8. Provided menu item "Curve basic measurements".

9. Adjusted Incoherence function to deal with very large number of timepoints  25K+.

10. Added the "Double-normalized Incoherece" and the "Incoherence Period" to the Curve measurements.

11. Enabled loading of the SIEMENS DWI datasets where the b-value is encoded in the SequenceName (0x0018:0024)

Build 407 is released.

 1. Update menu for the Single Slice Lung MR segmentation workflow.

2. Lung Single slice "Segment Current Timepoint" function was added with tuned parameters.

3. Lung curve measurement : introduced the Normalized Incoherence measure so it potentially could be better compared to Incoherence of the pilot tone curve (which comes in normalized).

4. Lung 4D Segmentation dialog : added the option "Correct Fringes".

5. ABT subtest for :  "Lung MR Segmentation on Current Timepoint"

6. Produced a mini manual for the Lung workflow changes

https://youtu.be/5tfV8z-Sa5g

 1. Lung segmentation : added a variant when only selected timepoint of 4D lung dataset is selected to generate a 3D ROI for that timepoint.

2. Lung segmentation dialog : change the "Smooth Image" parameter into (mm)

Build 406 is released.

 1. Implemented new Workflow:  "Parametric Map Batch Feature Processing". FireVoxel opening the folder containing FVX files. Then common parametric maps are identified. Radiomics feature measurements are performed on all files in the folder and result is placed into TXT file formatted for Excel import.

2. DICOM file loading of b-values:  Included the code check for using the DICOM-recommended tag before proceeding to the Manuf\Model-specific private tags. (Resolved the issue with the Philips\Activa images).

3. Loading an odd Diffusion DICOM set is facilitated by introducing a new option (checkbox) "Combine STUDIES" in DICOM load Dialog Box.

Build 405 is releazed.

 1.  When the DICOM image fails to load it now displays the TransferSyntax name (f.e. JPEG-LS) in diagnostics message.

2. Correction within CVol::Spc() function : calculating times were too long. Reverted to older version with m_Spc.IsValid() test. (This was resulting in Rasterize Selection function appear suspended).

3.

Implemented initial version of the FlexMorph function (based on Flexr3D). Allows to produce morphing between 2 highly non-convex slices.

4. Fixed:  DICOM load of a single file when both {SliceThickness,SpacingBetweenSlices} is missing.

Build 404C is released.

1.When exporting a double-real image to {ANALYZE,MIDAS,NII} we offer NAN as the default value for VOIDVOX. So the other packages can read it appropriately.

2. When loading {ANALYZE,MIDAS,NII}  and NAN voxel is present, it is converted appropriately to firevoxel internal VOIDVOX value.

3. Fixed the "Linear Conversion over ROI"  UI function

 Build 404B is released.

1. Workflows>Lung MR >Display Lung Curves : enabled the layers be named with prefix {Lft,Left,Rgt,Right} non-case sensitive.

2. Fixed the crash when 1. Workflows>Lung MR >Display Lung Curves  is called without the 4D ROI layers present.

Build 404A is released.

 1. Updated the FLEXR MC UI and function to include the "Actual Target dynamic index" option. This is required when the Target ROI is drawn on one timepoint but it is beneficial for the feature matching to use a different timepoint as a Target.   This is the case in BPE breast study.

2. Updated the lung curve report function output.

Build 404 is released.

 1. FLEXR Motion correction: implemented a new UI processing option when the final reslicing timepoint is different from the Target timepoint.

2. TransformFieldNW : performed corrections when the Source mask is present.

3. Load FVX file (all versions) : Fixed defect when UserOpt.LoadDynExp=false the loading of the DynExp from file was improperly skipped.

4. New streamlined function for the ROI segmentation split based on histogram (using standard RoiStats3D dialog box)

Build 403A is released.

 1. Phillips "Prodiva CX" scanner model was added when extracting b-values.

FireVoxel Build 403 is released.

 1.Corrections regarding the DICOM load with TE values and their conversion between ms-displayed and sec-internal.

2. Internal:  splitting the VA_FLEXR structure in to FLEXR3D and FLEXRMC

3. UI:  Splitting the general FLEXR dialog into  FLEXR3D and FLEXRMC

4. Added the ABT subtest:  FLEXR3D for CT Lung (from EMPIRE 2010 competition).

5. UI: Added the function to generate FireVoxel license key

Build 402 is released.

 1. Corrected defect when "Remove duplicate SOP Instance UID" message pops up even when no duplicates are present.

2. Provided a more explanatory message in the event of duplicates present

3. Corrected the progress bar when loading large Folders of DICOM files.

4.  Implemented UI functionality to change the TE value of a group of DICOM files from the OpenDICOM dialog box.

5. Corrected UI bug in a string display when specifying the values in Volume>Set DICOM Tags.

6. Fixed the crash defect when setting the TE dicom tag in the Ti=1 volume.

 New DICOM check and message in the recent Builds:

Each DICOM file is supposed to have an unique SOP Instance UID as explained here:

SOP Instance UID - OTpedia, Information for Medical Imaging (otechimg.com)

However, this is sometimes not a case.

Prior to Build 399 this check was always made and the duplicate SOP Instance UID files were excluded from loading. 

Then in Build 399 a new check was added and if the files with the identical SOP Instance UID are detected the dialog box comes up that offers to remove the duplicate files from loading (but does not delete them physically).

Build 401 is released.

 1. Development moved to new version MS VC++ 2022.

2. FireVoxel recompiled on VC++ 2022.  Modules {FvxDcm, FvxMem} corrected warnings Level4 and various issues found by a new compiler.

3. Recompiled DCMTK 3.6.3 (2018) using the new compiler.

4. Updated the MSVC redistribution files in FVX.

 List of FireVoxel publications May 2019-May 2020.

A 3D printed patient-specific dual compartment breast phantom for validating MRI acquisition and analysis techniques.

Wake N, Ianniello C, Brown R, Walczyk J, Moy L, Collins C, Rusinek H.

Trans Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine 1(1): 11-12, 2019.

doi:10.18416/AMMM.2019.1909S12T01

 

Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging texture analysis in differentiating low-grade from high-grade gliomas: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Wang Q, Lei D, Yuan Y, Zhao H.

BMJ Open 9(9):e027144 (epub. in press), 2019.

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027144

 

Added value of histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient maps for differentiating triple-negative breast cancer from other subtypes of breast cancer on standard MRI.

Liu H-L, Zong M, Wei H, Wang C, Lou J-J, Wang S-Q, Zou Q-G, Jiang Y-N.

Cancer Manag Res 11: 8239–8247, 2019.

doi:10.2147/CMAR.S210583    PMCID: PMC6735623   PMID: 31564982

 

A new method for cartilage evaluation in femoroacetabular impingement using quantitative T2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: preliminary validation against arthroscopic findings.

Ben-Eliezer N, Raya JG, Babb JS, Youm T, Sodickson DK, Lattanzi R.

Cartilage (epub, in press), 2019.

doi.org/10.1177/1947603519870852

 

A novel MRI tool for evaluating cortical bone thickness of the proximal femur.

Ramme AJ, Vira S, Hotca A, Miller R, Welbeck A, Honig S, Egol KA, Rajapakse CS, Chang G.

Bull Hosp Joint Disease 77(2): 115-121, 2019.

 

Apparent diffusion coefficient-based histogram analysis differentiates histological subtypes of periampullary adenocarcinoma.

Lu J-Y, Yu H, Zou X-L, Li Z, Hu X-M, Shen Y-Q, Hu D-Y.

World J Gastroenterol 25(40): 6116–6128, 2019.

doi:10.3748/wjg.v25.i40.6116    PMCID: PMC6824280   PMID: 31686767

 

Application of apparent diffusion coefficient values derived from diffusion-weighted imaging for assessing different sized metastatic lymph nodes in cervical cancers.

Aining Z, Song J, Ma Z, Chen T.

Acta Radiol (epub, in press), 2019.

doi:10.1177/0284185119879686

 

Application of FireVoxel software to measure the volume of intracranial hematoma.

Guangwei F, Shangfeng G, Chengkun Y, Xiaofeng C, Shun L, Jun L.

J Clinical Neurosurgery 16(1): 33-37, 2019.

 

Application value of MRI apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) before and after radical mastectomy for patients with breast cancer.

Chen L, Liu L, Zhao F, Li X, Li B, Lu S.

Int J Clin Exp Med 12(9):11538-11546, 2019.

 

A study of the correlation of perfusion parameters in high-resolution GRASP MRI with microvascular density in lung cancer.

Chen L, Zeng X, Wu Y, Yan X, Huang X, Chen H, Zhang J, Wang J, Feng L.

J Magn Reson Imaging 49(4): 1186-1194, 2019.

doi.org/10.1002/jmri.26340

 

Combining tumor size and diffusion-weighted imaging to diagnose normal-sized metastatic pelvic lymph nodes in cervical cancers.

Song J, Hu Q, Huang J, Ma Z, Chen T.

Acta Radiol 60(3): 388-395, 2019.

doi:10.1177/0284185118780903.

 

Different relationship between systolic blood pressure in subjects with and without hypertension.

Glodzik L, Rusinek H, Tsui W, Pirraglia E, Kim HJ, Deshpande A, Li Y, Storey P, Randall C, Chen J, Osorio RS, Butler T, Tanzi E, McQuillan M, Harvey P, Williams SK, Ogedegbe OG, Babb JS, de Leon M.

Hypertension 73(1):197-205, 2019.

 

Differentiation between orbital malignant and benign tumors using intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging: correlation with dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

Xu X-Q, MD, Hu H, Su G-Y, Liu H, Wu F-Y, Shi H-B.

Medicine (Baltimore) 98(12): e14897, 2019.

doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000014897   PMCID: PMC6709032   PMID: 30896639

 

Diffusion and perfusion MRI quantification in ileal Crohn’s disease.

Hectors SJ, Gordic S, Semaan S, Bane O, Hirten R, Jia X, Colombel J-F, Taouli B.

European Radiology 29, 993–1002, 2019.

 

Diffusion MRI biomarkers of white matter microstructure vary nonmonotonically with increasing cerebral amyloid deposition.

Dong JW, Jelescu IO, Ades-Aron B, Novikov DS, Friedman K, Babb JS, Osorio RS, Galvin JE, Shepherd TM, Fieremans E.

Neurobiology of Aging 89: 118-128, 2020.

 

Effect of laterality, gender, age and body mass index on the fat fraction of salivary glands in healthy volunteers: assessed using iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation method.

Su G-Y, Wang C-B, Hu H, Liu J, Ding H-Y, Xu X-Q, Wu F-Y.

British Institute of Radiology 2019

doi.org/10.1259/dmfr.20180263

 

Exploratory study of apparent diffusion coefficient histogram metrics in assessing pancreatic malignancy.

Taffel MT, Luk L, Ream JM, Rosenkrantz AB.

Canadian Assoc Radiolog J 70(4), 416-423, 2019.          

doi.org/10.1016/j.carj.2019.07.001

 

Histogram analysis of diffusion kurtosis imaging in the differentiation of malignant from benign breast lesions.

Liu W, Wei C, Bai J, Gao X, Zhou L.

Eur J Radiol 117:156-163, 2019.

 

Histogram analysis with computed tomography angiography for discriminating soft tissue sarcoma from benign soft tissue tumor.

Wu G, MD, Xie R, Li Y, Hou B, Morelli JN, Li X.

Medicine (Baltimore) 99(2): e18742, 2020.

doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000018742    PMCID: PMC6959892     PMID: 31914093

 

Histological grades of rectal cancer: whole-volume histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient based on reduced field-of-view diffusion-weighted imaging.

Peng Y, Tang H, Meng X, Shen Y, Hu D, Kamel Y, Li Z.

Quant Imaging Med Surg 10(1): 243–256, 2020.  

doi:10.21037/qims.2019.11.17

PMCID: PMC6960428   PMID: 31956546

 

IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis: a clinical and imaging review.

Madhusudhan KS, Das P, Gunjan D, Srivastava DN, Garg PK.

American Journal of Roentgenology 213(6): 1-11, 2019.

doi:10.2214/AJR.19.21519

 

Influence of bone lesion location on femoral bone strength assessed by MRI-based finite-element modeling.

Rajapakse CS, Gupta N, Evans M, et al.

Bone 122: 209–217, 2019.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2019.03.005    PMID: 30851438   PMCID: PMC6486650

 

MRI as a diagnostic biomarker for differentiating primary central nervous system lymphoma from glioblastoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Suh CH, Kim HS, Jung SC, Park JE, Choi CG, Kim SJ.

J Magn Reson Imaging 50(2), 2019.

doi.org/10.1002/jmri.26602

 

Perfusion parameters of intravoxel incoherent motion based on tumor edge region of interest in cervical cancer: evaluation of differentiation and correlation with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI.

Wang H, Zhu L, Li G et al.

Acta Radiologica (epub. in press) 2019.

doi.org/10.1177/0284185119890086

 

Precisely-measured hydration status correlates with hippocampal volume in healthy older adults.

Butler T, Deshpande A, Harvey P, Li Y, Rusinek H, Pirraglia E, Osorio R, Glodzik L, de Leon MJ, Madelin G, Yu WW, Gallagher D, Masaeka J.

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 27(6), 653-654, 2019.

 

Prediction of platinum-based chemotherapy response in advanced high-grade serous ovarian cancer: adc histogram analysis of primary tumors.

Lu J, Li HM, Cai SQ, et al.

Academic Radiology (epub. in press) 2020.

doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2020.01.024

 

Preliminary study of using diffusion kurtosis imaging for characterizing parotid gland tumors.

Qian W, Xu XQ, Zhu LN, Ma G, Su GY, Bu SS, Wu FY.

Acta Radiol 60(7): 887-894, 2019.

doi:10.1177/0284185118803784.

 

Prospective comparison between DCE-MRI and 99mTc-DTPA-based SPECT for determination of allograft renal function.

Wan-Li Z, Jun T, Yu-Dong Z, et al.

J Magn Reson Imaging 49(1): 2019

 

Prostate cancer heterogeneity: texture analysis score based on multiple MRI sequences for detection, stratification and selection of lesions at time of biopsy.

Orczyk C, Villers A, Rusinek H, Lepennec V, Bazille C, Giganti F, Mikheev A, Bernaudin M, Emberton Mark, Fohlen A, Valable S.

Brit J Urol International 124(1), 76-86, 2019.

 

Quantitative assessment of diffusion kurtosis imaging depicting deep myometrial invasion: a comparative analysis with diffusion-weighted imaging.

Song JC, Lu SS, Zhang J, Liu XS, Luo CY, Chen T.

Diagn Interv Radiol 26(2): 74–81, 2020.

doi: 10.5152/dir.2019.18366    PMCID: PMC7051262    PMID: 32071025

 

Quantitative multivoxel proton MR spectroscopy for the identification of white matter abnormalities in mild traumatic brain injury: Comparison between regional and global analysis.

Davitz MS, Gonen O, Tal A, Babb JS, Lui YW, Kirov II.

J Magn Reson Imaging 50(5):1424–1432, 2019.    

doi.org/10.1002/jmri.26718

 

Radiomics based on multimodal MRI for the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast lesions.

Zhang Q, Peng Y, Liu W, et al.

J Magn Reson Imaging (epub, in press) 2020.

doi.org/10.1002/jmri.27098

 

Rectal cancer invasiveness: whole-lesion diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) histogram analysis by comparison of reduced field-of-view and conventional DWI techniques.

Peng Y, Tang H, Hu X et al.

Sci Rep 9, 18760, 2019.

 

Simultaneous evaluation of lung anatomy and ventilation using 4D respiratory motion resolved ultrashort echo time sparse MRI.

Feng L, Delacoste J, Smith D, et al.

J Magn Reson Imaging 49(2):411–422, 2019.

doi:10.1002/jmri.26245

 

Small field of view diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the kidneys in people with type 2 diabetes and healthy controls.

Lim R, Williams J, Perchyonok Churilov Y, McKenna N, Torkamani N, Staeb D, Mikheev A, Rusinek H,Ekinci E.

Kidney International Reports 4(7): S286–S287, 2019.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2019.05.710

 

Splenic T1rho as a noninvasive biomarker for portal hypertension.

Hectors SJ, Bane O, Stocker D, et al.

J Magn Reson Imaging  (epub., in press) 2020. 

doi.org/10.1002/jmri.27087

 

The evaluation of prostate lesions with IVIM DWI and MR perfusion parameters at 3T MRI.

Beyhan M, Sade R, Koc E, Adanur S, Kantarci M.

La Radiologia Medica 124: 87–93, 2019.

 

The histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient in differential diagnosis of parotid tumor.

Chen P, Dong B, Zhang C, Tao X, Wang P, Zhu L.

British Institute of Radiology (epub, in press) 2019.

doi.org/10.1259/dmfr.20190420

 

Value of diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced MR in predicting parametrial invasion in cervical stromal ring focally disrupted stage IB–IIA cervical cancers.

Song J, Hu Q, Ma Z, Zhang J, Chen T.

Abdominal Radiology 44: 3166–3174, 2019.

 

Volumetric apparent diffusion coefficient histogram analysis in differentiating intrahepatic mass-forming cholangiocarcinoma from hepatocellular carcinoma.

Zou X, Luo Y, Li Z et al.

J Magn Reson Imaging 49(4): 975-983, 2019.

 

Whole-lesion histogram analysis metrics of the apparent diffusion coefficient: a correlation study with histological grade of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Xu YS, Liu HF, Xi DL, et al.

Abdominal Radiology 44(9): 3089–3098, 2019.

 

Whole liver apparent diffusion coefficient histogram analysis for the diagnosis and staging of liver fibrosis.

Zheng Y,  Xu Y-S, Liu Z, Liu HF, Zhai YN, XR, Lei JQ.

J Magn Reson Imaging (epub., in press) 2019.

PMID: 31729811   doi.org/10.1002/jmri.26987

 

Whole-tumor histogram analysis of non-Gaussian distribution DWI parameters to differentiation of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas.

Li J, Liang L, Yu H, et al.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging 55: 52-59, 2019.

doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2018.09.017

 

Whole-tumor quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient histogram and texture analysis to differentiation of minimal fat angiomyolipoma from clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Li H, Li A, Zhu H, et al.

Acad Radiol 26(5): 632–639, 2019.

doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2018.06.015

 

book:

Finite element method and medical imaging techniques in bone biomechanics.

Rabeb Ben Kahla, Abdelwahed Barkaoui, Tarek Merzouki. Wiley Online Library, Abdelkhalak El Hami editor, 2020.