Save Time and Increase Productivity with Simpleware’s Latest Release N-2018.03

Key Features:

• Combine multiple image modalities like CT and MRI into one project file to leverage both for segmentation
• Easy-to-use landmark registration workflow with additional automatic greyscale based registration for increased accuracy
• Quantified feedback on registration success through various 2D and 3D options

Benefits:

• Facilitate the process of segmenting structures of interest, e.g. use MRI to segment soft tissue and CT data to identify hard tissue structures
• Combine multiple scans acquired at different orientations to extract information that would otherwise be indecipherable from the data.

Image Reslicing Visualization

Reslice image data, and their segmented masks, to enable easier identification of particular regions of interest. This new tool allows exploring the data from a non-orthogonal orientation without having to resort to manual alignment. This tool can be used, for example, to explore the “fit” of off-axis parts with one another.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Reslice your image volume to enable easier identification of anatomical regions of interest
• Variety of reslicing methods available by specifying a line, spline, centerline or rotation axis
• Link to 3D view and model clipping for enhanced visualization and inspection

3D Editing Improvements

New lasso and polygonal frustum creation options make selecting region of interests easier, and manual processing of data faster.

New Frustum ROI options (left) and using a single Lasso frustum ROI (right)

Features and Benefits:

• Analyze the thickness of any segmented mask or surface object
• Visualize results in 3D with a color map to identify critical regions
• Option probe the 3D model to inspect local results in more detail
• Statistics on the minimum, maximum and average thickness
• Life science application: analyze blood vessel walls, cartilage, cortical bone and more …

Shape-based Measurements

A number of new tools for automatic and guided shape fitting to segmented masks and surface objects. Fit many shapes, including planes, spheres and cylinders to your entire segmentation, or to an isolated region of your segmentation using the improved region-of-interest selection tools, or the new 3D-paint-selection tool. The created shapes can be used to perform automatic measurements (e.g. the angle between two planes). These tools can be used to easily, and reproducibly quantify objects like screw holes in industrial data, or to quickly extract anatomical coordinates, like the center of a femoral head.

Fitting spheres to the femoral heads to allow for calculation of distance between centers

Features and Benefits:

• New set of tools to allow for the creation and fitting of shapes
• Fit planes, spheres, cylinders (and many more) to your segmentation
• New surface painting selection tools to easily and quickly identify regions of interest for fitting
• Obtain statistics and measurements on each shape or between shapes (e.g. angle between two planes)
• Life science example application: Centre of a femoral head (by sphere measurement)
• Other example application: Measuring diameters of holes in industrial data.

Snap Registration and Surface Deviation Analysis

The Snap tool offers an automatic alternative for registration of alike surfaces. The Surface deviation tool allows comparison of a test surface to a reference surface for deviation analysis. Alongside statistical values relating to the deviation, a color mapping is rendered in the 3D view to illustrate the distribution. This tool may typically be used in an industrial setting to compare the surface of a scanned manufactured part to its original CAD model, for example to evaluate manufacturing tolerances, but could equally be used in a medical setting to evaluate tumor growth over time.