[Kde-announce-apps] kradview 0.6.1

[David Santo Orcero]

Name: kradview
Version: 0.6.1
Type: Graphic Viewer
Depend: 
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.orcero.org/irbis/kradview/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29158

Description:
 Nowadays, all the image capturing devices for
medical purposes use the same image format: DICOM.
DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and
COmmunications in Medicine; and it is a very rich
image format, independent from the capturing
device and the visualization platform. Now DICOM
is considered the worldwide standard for Industry
and research. The format is open, and the most of
its information can be freely download. Anyway,
part of the standard can only be obtained paying a
fee. This makes harder a free implementation, but
does not affect to its openness. 
 From its richness and platform independence comes
its main problem. DICOM is a hard format to
implement, so far it can store rich information
about the patient, the capture device, the
physical parameters of the capturing process and
several images in only one file. It also allows
that each field can have its own codification
format, length and endianness. A field can be in
little endian or big endian, and it is up to the
viewer to identify it from the control fields and
to make the right conversions. The image is
codified in JPEG lossless format. 
 There are several ways to open a DICOM image on a
free operating system. The most of them are
proprietary solutions; and the free ones are
really hard to use for medical staff on a daily
basics, and does not show the metadata of the
image, what is really important for daily work. A
doctor needs a way to see clearly, fast,
accurattely a X-ray image. 
 Here is the gap that kradview fills: Kradview is
a GPLed viewer of images obtained for some
different sources: X-ray, NMR and DICOM-compatible
imaging devices that runs on free operating
systems. Its aim is a easy to use DICOM viewer
with instant rendering of images, no matter the
size and the zoom of the DICOM image. It covers
the "let's see the the X-ray image" need of the
medical professional. 
 Kradview as been developed in C and C++ using KDE
libraries. The parsing, rendering, and processing
routines has been developed in C, and the
graphical interface has been developed in C++ and
includes the former routines with "extern C" for
fast use. 
 Now kradview counts with thousands of downloads,
and it is being used succesfully to see
radiological images and its metadata on several
medical centers.

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Note: the images shown have lost quality due to
the compresion and the image restriction limits.


Changelog:
 Kradview Changelog v.0.6.1 - 21/3/2006
 Minor code cleanups (David Santo Orcero)

Kradview Changelog v.0.6.0 - 18/3/2006

 kradview now compiles for any gcc version (David
Santo Orcero) 
 Fixed error on read width from a file: now
kradview open lots of more images (David Santo
Orcero)

Kradview Changelog v.0.5.3-6/9/2005

Fixed core dump when asking for information of a
image and there was no image loaded. (David Santo
Orcero) 

Kradview Changelog v.0.5.3 - 7/6/2005

First free version of kradview. (David Santo
Orcero)