Search This Blog

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Build 454 is released.

 

 1. FLEXR 3D\MC : introduced the Regularization 32/64-bit precision option.

2. Fixed defect in optional loading of FvxANN.dll

Friday, July 19, 2024

Build 453 is released.

1. FLEXR3D:  Implemented the SSC (Self Similarity Context) registration measure.

2. Performed corrections in "Normalize by ROI" dialog box.

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Build 452 is released

 1. Internal coding: Parallel Batch unified calculation

2. Model #17:  allowed volumes with two  large b-values for calculation (before it was 3).

3. Cylinder Paintbrush option.

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Build 451 is released.

 1. Defect: corrected MST (minimum spanning tree) function in coordinate calculation VA_CoordFromOffs.

2. MST function speed optimization.

3. Fixed defect:   AVX512 instruction detection was always returning TRUE.

4. Parallel Batch functions (x4) consolidation.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Build 450 is released.

 1. DICOM Smoothing batch tool: performed correction for site#3 by folding STUDY UID.

2. Temporal Shape Means smoothing - implemented 2D option for a major acceleration.

3. Internal : Add Layer using Header Volume: fixed the crash defect when there was a mixture of 3D and 4D layers.

4. Neck Multimodality workflow: Updated the parameters for CT->GRASP FLEXR registration.


Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Build 449A is released.

 1. Dynamic Model #10: rebuilt from scratch to use modern framework.

2. Duplicate Model 11 is removed from the interface.

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Build 449 is released.

 1. >ROI>Threshold To ROI  GUI function: parallelized and added a progress bar. It was slow on really big REAL images (300MB+).

2. Increased the REAL Image compression threshold: this is so the images are only compressed when it is worth more. This really speeds up the viewing.

3. Corrected the ParalleBatch {Length,NumberOfBatches} calculation function.

4. FLEXR3D\FLEXRMC dialogs : added an option to Inflate target ROI (similar to AutoFocus3D)

5. FELXR: Minimum Spanning Tree : added the progress bar.

6. Cross Correlation function : upgraded from AVX2 to AVX512

7.  Implemented Hip registration workflow.

8. Fixed defect: Layer Control Dialog: SaveAll (fixed the orientation issue when saving to NIFTI volumes)

9. Fixed defects in API:VolSetSlice function.

10. Fixed defects in Temporal Shape Means function

11. DICOM Folders : Conventional Smoothing to Target DICOM Folder.

12. DICOM Folders : TSM Smoothing to Target DICOM Folder.

13. Remove Multipass from FLEXR dialogs.

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Build 448A is released.

 1. GUI: Implemented the Volume>"Multilayer Document PCA" function.

2. "Batch Fix DICOM tags...": provided a better diagnostics message.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Build 448 is released.

 1. FLEXR: Introduce vicinity rotation invariance for similarity measures. Applied it to the X-correlation measure.

2. Brain Atlas GUI: implemented menu items for Stage1 and 2SW-Stage2 processing.

3. FLEXR: Removed OptiMap measure from Menu choices.

4. Re-implemented important IsRoiEmpty function so it works very fast and without decompression.

5. Removed all the items related to Ultra Sound processing.

6. Incorporated the IsRoiSliceEmpty fast check into zooming pipeline. It was x6 time faster for Mindboggle atlas with 70 ROIs.  Also incroporated into FilmView for a similar speedup.


7. Regular Grid keypoint generation:  corrected the adjacency checking to comply with keypoint positision in voxel corner (not vertex).

8. Complete rework of Roi Surface keypoints. Vertice correction and speed up. 

9. Autofocus3D:CalculateMeasure: removed sub-code for SignalDifference using RL-encoding.

10. Corrected FLEXR ROI padding calculation to include all measures.

11. Removed FLEXR legacy algorithm

12. Corrected crash defect : in Affine Reslicing when the resulting volume exceeds 4GB.

13. FLEXR\Similarity: adjusted vicinity calculation in case single slice (2D) image.

Monday, April 29, 2024

Build 447 is released.

 1. Re-implemented the dense Flow field generation, so it works correctly when the initial transform is general affine (as opposed to scale+translation)

2. FLEXR : implemented the VOID voxel concept in Target and Source images. Modified all registration metrics to work properly with VOID voxels. This is especially important for Atlas representation.

3. Atlas based registration : added the workflow item.  Atlas is automatically split into the regions that appear as the individual layers.

4. Made corrections in Neck Multimodality workflow - Step 15.

Friday, April 19, 2024

Build 446B is released.

 1.  Neck Workflow :  DWI Body segmentation automatically advances to starting timepoint.

2. FLEXR:  Local Mutual Info - progress bar added and memory usage substantially decreased.

3. FLEXR : prevent running when no keypoints were specified.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Build 446A is released.

1. Corrections FLEXR when registering 4D volume to 3D.

2. FLEXR-MC dialog simplifications.

Friday, March 22, 2024

Build 446 is released.

 1. Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm update with keypoint re-arrangement in the order of the Tree width-first traverse.

2. FLEXR: developed a multipass version of this algorithm running on 1/3 of RAM.  Multipass allows to start minimum spanning tree from several distant positions to compensate for tree approximation.

3. NW flow field generation:  provided an AVX256 implementation for x2 speedup.

4. NW flow Sparse-to-Dense:  implemented algorithm for filtering out remote keypoints for speedup. This was based on evaluating Y-Z exponents and introdducing some minor artefacts.

5. Volume-to-concentration conversion: fixed defect when VOID voxels were treated as regular ones calculating an infinite concentration as a result.

6. Completely re-engineered sparse-to-dense flow field generation for upto x20 speed up (on CT Lung 5 mm grid)

7. Workflow>Breaset MR BPE : implemented Whole Breast Segmentation function

8. File>DICOM>Dicom Tree to Folders   : fixed defect when composite SERIES were not able to convert to folder.

9. VA_VolSegHist:  fixed defect. This function was returning thresholds measured in Histogram bins. Corrected to signal.

10.  Workflow>BPE breast :  added a one-click function for FGT segmentation.

11.  Workflow>BPE breast: added function for 3D motion correction.

12, MainMenu>Dynamic Analysis:   enabled work without supplying the T1-map so only T1W conversion is enabled.


13. Simplified the FLEXR 3D/MC menues.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Build 445 is released.

1. VA_RAW_VolSaveFile function: optimized when CurrTinx!=1 only the required timepoint is decompressed.

2. New GUI function: Convert folder of FVX files into a target folder with separate subfolder for each FVX file. For each FVX subfolder save all layers to NII files.

3. Provided FLEXR RAM estimation function and comparison to the system resources.

4. Updated MR Lung segmentation algorithm

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Build 444 is released.

 1. FLEXR fixed defect so the registered volumes have the same Image Position\Orientation as the Target volume.

2. Updated the Machine GUID scrambling algorithm.

3. Neck multimodality workflow:  added the DWI Body Segmentation and DWI->GRASP registration.

4. Improved the FLEXR masking algorithm, both Smask and Tmask.

5. FLEXR perform corrections is Target->Source output option.

6. Fixed defect in bool VA_VolOverRoi_AvgMinMax, that was affecting the Optimal Intensity Window.

7. FLEXR3D works now when the Source volume is 4D, so it would reslice all timepoints and produce a 4D layer.

8. Fixed defect in DisplayVoxelInfo (status line), so the VOID voxel location show the dynamic index too.

9. Provided a first version of Neck Multimodality 15 step workflow combining PET, CT, GRASp,DWI.

10. Compare documents\compare volumes : provided the comparison function which works on compressed image data, so there is no need to decompress for the comparison.

11. Huffman compression of DICOM headers: upgraded to 64-bit and corrected when the longest H-code exceeded 24-bit.

12. Updated the Machine GUID scrambling scheme.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Build 443 is released.

 1. EdgeWave UI dialog box: fixed defect when Absolute Core SI was not accepting negative values (f.e. Real CT).

2. FLEXR3D dialog UI: added the Initial Transform option

3. FLEXR:InitialAlignment - substantial algorithm re-engineering.

4. Neck Multimodlaity Workflow: Added GUI function for the initial Ct to GRASP alignment.

5. FLEXR3D: implemented the FLEXR with Initial Transform file (vtf).

6. Expanded the FVX License key file to  include Windows Machine GUID.

7. Corrected the WC\WL setting in Volume View Filter dialog.

Monday, February 19, 2024

 Build 442 is released.

1. Developed a new tool for checking precision of motion correction "Motion Profile Diagram". This is based on Gene Kim's 2007 JMRI paper.

2. Extended the logic of loading DICOM 4D Volumes based on Series Description tag.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

 Build 441 is released.

1. Volume Layer: ViewFilter dialog box (INT,REAL) : introduced new "Adaptive Window Level\Width option". It optimizes mapping to screen for every zoom. Very  useful for comparing registration results on dark timepoints such as last b-values.

2. LayerControl dialog : implemented  "Interlaced View" option {X,Y,XY} so the layers are seen in overlacing manner.

3. Volume>Split 4D volume into layers" : for 4D volumes splits each separate timepoint into a document layer. Useful for viewing motion correction results.

4. Upgraded to FVX file format v17 due to above (#1,2) changes.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Build 440 is released.

 1. Internal: upgraded VolumePad function to work with 4D volumes.

2. Implemented prototype of NLM-D denoising (when TACs are compared for each location), as opposed to perform NLM for each timepoint separately.

3. When saving volumes with Void orientation to NIFTI, display a warning and save in default orientation.

4. Implemented new denoising algoritm: Temporal Shape Means (with GUI)

5. Implemented new denoising algoritm: Spatial Temporal Shape Means (with GUI).

6. Dynamic framework can now output the Model volume for every voxel (modified GUI by adding a check to the dialog box).

7. Numpy load COMPLEX64 support was added.

8. Fixed FLEXR3D crash on single slice volumes (regular grid generation).

9. Fixed crash in Gaussian smoothing function applied to ROI.

10. BPE map and report generation: changed to average Slope (from Start-End slope). Allowed function to work on any number of timepoints.

11, Added support for additional variety of SIEMENS b-value encoding in SEQUENCE_NAME tag.

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Build 439 is released.

 1. Non-local Means denoising : expanded to optionally process all timepoints.

2. Implemented a GUI dialog for loading {2,3,4} dimensional matrices as volumes (File>Open RAW data).

3. Numpy format support under the File>Open RAW data