Roadmap

Here are the main milestones of Carimas research version. More detail version history can be found from Carimas menu by selecting Help->Show version differences

Version: 2.10

Core updates

• Scripting, macro and patch processing support
• More detailed functionality trough manual commands
• Image time shifting
• Uniform image scaling
• Hot colorscale
• RGB background images
• Mask region loading and saving
• Data can be imported to program with drag and drop
• Better logging system

Version: 2.9

Core updates

• Informs about new available updates and updates if user accepts
• Supports adding analysis flow plug-ins
• Better display for single slice images
• Multiple VOIs can be edited same time as a group
• Already drawn VOIs can be set visible when new regions are drawn
• From menu, it’s possible to query list of plug-ins from Carimas server and install them with a single click
• Support for dynamic masks

Version: 2.8

Core updates

• Hint paths (projects know now relative paths to images)
• 64-bit indexing (64 bit OS can load image of unlimited size if there is enough memory)
• More plug-in interfaces
• PACS moved to TPC library and updated faster + nearline wait support
• Memory leak bug fix
• 3D masking bug fix and optimization for memory handling
• Tooltip helps added to model tree panel
• Showing and hiding window components
• Possibility to show image information texts on windows (and customize the shown info)
• Screen shots with custom resolution
• Mask image saving with more than one regions
• Converting drawn 2D ROI sets to closed 3D shape. Gaps are interpolated (No need to draw to every plane)
• Cubic interpolation option added for visualization
• Better color bar (value histogram and context menu added)
• Better histogram tool
• Mask transparency slider
• Weighted mean display in addition to sum and diff
• Possibility to display 3D window in free dragball mode (no fixed up vector for camera)
• 2D ROI editor allows now deleting and adding points after ROI is created
• Min/Max curve calculation

Version: 2.7

Core updates

• Licensing
• Registration plugin interface
• Image orientation bug fix in PACS and Secondary library loading
• Linux tooltip fix and optimization for 64 bit windows

TPC library updates

• Deadlock fix in DicomHeader
• Add bfsrtm
• Use exact match in TextHeader fields
• Add lambda values to Isotope
• Add count information to ImageHeader interface
• Fix WeightedSumOfSquaresMetric
• Always read matching sif file from the image directory, if found
• Add Lambda/HalfLife conversions to Isotope
• Fix DFT.Convolution
• Add constants to Mathematics
• Move LinearEquations to Mathematics
• Add Mathematics namespace

Automatic PET–>MRI coregistration was added

Version: 2.6.3

Core updates

• XOR masking for VOIs
• %ID/mL -output unit added
• Now both main image and background can be moved and rotated
• It’s now possible to extract curve from every pixel inside of VOI to file
• Possibility to scale selected VOIs by given percentage
• Possibility to rotate selected VOIs by given angle
• Contour ROI works now with images with one plane

TPC library updates

• Remove info messages to log from Logan and Patlak
• Fix CommonBitmap and Bas file saving as Dicom
• Fix bitmap recognition
• Fix bitmap saving as Dicom
• Fix automatic reading of Sif in Analyze files
• Add IScaling interface; other than linear scaling now possible
• Add Fuji BAS2500 file format
• Fix interfile frame times
• Add orientation info to MicroPET (using subject_orientation)
• Fix CreateDicom when input data is in format not supported by Dicom
• Update fit process optimization logic to ensure fits are not dependent on previous
  results
• Change Kmono parameter limits
• Fix null pointer crash when opening an empty file as dft

Version: 2.6.1

Core updates

• Plot time range selecting accepts now negative values
• Color bar memory consumption bug fixed
• 2D ROI in rotated image crash bug fixed
• VOI copy paste bug fixes
• Plugin folder selecting

TPC library updates

• Use image center as MicroPET origin
• Fix bitmap type recognition
• Fix compartment model input function handling, if input and measured data are not
  in the same unit / timescale
• Add ErrorFunction to Statistics
• Add common bitmap image read support
• Fix overflow in header ascii strings
• Fix dynamic Ecat63 reading and add frame times
• Fix over/underflow when converting from VAX-floats
• Add special case for dynamic CT images in Dicom
• Add new statistical tools
• Fix saving to PACS / Dicom uid generation / patient birthday dicom encoding
• Ensure Dicom UIDs are not too long

New module was added: HeartROI.dll – User can now draw custom ROI to any heart polarmap

Version: 2.6.0

Core updates

• Project files do not require folder any more
• Mesh stabilize tool added
• Multiple simultaneous VOI moving in mm
• Mask VOIs

Data Tree updates

• If some type cannot be created during loading, error is shown instead of breaking
  whole process

TPC library updates

• Add R values to linear plots
• Fix NaN checking
• Fix: Image writing/rescaling
• Change variable & function names for consistency
• Fix handling of powell deltas with infinite/NaN parameter bounds
• Check QFac in Nifti: always return 1 or -1
• Fix Patlak/Logan units
• Add DecayCorrection to ImageHeader
• Add new interfile headers for HRRT
• Fix Nifti orientation
• Fix dicom study/series/instance UID generation
• Interfile now uses start of the data file name as study description if no other
  available

New module was added: Time Correction Plugin (1.0.0.8459)

Version: 2.5.0

Core updates

• Better memory management. Larger images can now be loaded
• Free image rotation support
• Neurological/Radiological viewing conventions
• Images are now loaded to standard orientation instead of data save order
• Direction arrows added to graphical screens
• Modeling parameters can be fixed to one value
• SUV calculation
• Points can be excluded from curves before modelling
• Curves can be saved with Start+End times if available

Data Tree updates

• Project file conversion system

New module was added: PolarMapCalculator.dll – Any of existing polarmaps can now be compared (diff and ratio polarmaps)

Version: 2.4.0

Core updates

• Fixed masking bug on left border of image
• VOI Flipping added to VOI panel
• Brain mirror
• Improvements to 2D active contour
• The currently selected pixel value in now better updated status bar (also mouse
  roll, etc)
• Display shift between main and background images with Ctrl + Shift + LMouse drag
• Many VOI masks can now be visualized same time by selecting many VOIs from list

PACS communication library updates

• Faster and sorted tree view
• Log level added to log events
• Empty Patient ID’s search bug fix

Data Tree updates

• Multi items are now listed better when tree is visualized
• Logging added
• Bug that caused possible freeze when deleting is fixed

Version: 2.3.0

Core updates

• Automatic 2D/3D VOI finding
• 3D Mesh filters added to Tools menu: Enlarge, Shrink, Smooth and Simplify
• Images can now be written to disk in DICOM format
• New image location is asked, if the image is not found during project loading
• Time correction plugin added (image filter)
• Several image loading bugs fixed
• Better image header dialog
• Curves are now automatically converted to image units when loading from a disk (if
  image units are Bq or kBq)
• Project file can now load images with “multiple extensions”
• Toggle between full and vertex mode with Z key
• Vertex mode radius can be adjusted now with Left Mouse Button + Roll
• Fixed 3D VOI masking bug on plane 0
• SIF file support added: User can now read new image times from image sub menu
• Fixed is the bug when removed images were still consuming memory
• 2D ROI sets can now be combined
• A Tooltip bug of VOI context menu is fixed
• Local settings file is now loaded from a program folder if it is not found from
  a personal folder

Version: 2.2.3

Core updates

• Max curve calculation added
• Dynamic CT images can now be loaded

New module was added: ParametricImageFilterPlugin.dll – Parametric image can be calculated using any existing model

Version: 2.2.1

Core updates

• Bug fixes to static image loading with secondary DICOM library

Version: 2.2.0

Core updates

• PACS support
• Secondary DICOM library
• Better memory handling for DICOM images loaded with secondary library
• Better logging system

New module was added: PACS communication library – Images can now be loaded from PACS

Version: 2.0.0

• First release