V7 is introducing a series of new functionalities tailored for medical imaging. The updates are focused on increasing the precision and efficiency of annotation projects in radiology, especially in the context of DICOM and NIfTI files.
The updates and new DICOM annotation tools have been inspired by specific use cases and challenges faced by medical professionals labeling complex datasets and developing healthcare AI.
These updates include:
You can now visualize CT and MRI scans in real-time 3D. This functionality includes multiple rendering presets for highlighting specific tissues like bones, fat, and muscle in vivid 3D. Moreover, you can filter annotations to focus on the relevant regions of interest. This makes adjusting annotations and understanding their position within anatomical structures a lot easier.
The Layouts feature allows you to create custom views, integrating multiple slots and adjustable grids. This functionality is crucial for creating custom views of different planes or for pairing diverse data types, such as medical scans alongside corresponding patient records.
Our new Auto-track feature introduces an efficient way to follow motion or shape changes across video frames or image sequences, such as slices from a CT scan. By creating an initial annotation and extending it across the timeline, Auto-track automatically annotates a sequence of adjacent frames or images. This can significantly accelerate the labeling process.
TotalSegmentator, now readily available in V7, is the industry standard and a game-changer for automating the segmentation of body parts, internal organs, and bones. This powerful model can be accessed directly from the annotation panel or integrated into your workflows, offering out-of-the-box segmentation that saves time and pre-annotates key structures.
The 3D brush tool allows for the quick voxel segmentation of regions of interest by using shapes such as spheres or cubes. Start by drawing the general volume with your 3D brush. Once you are done, you can refine your annotations with smaller-scale brushes in both 3D and 2D views for pixel-perfect accuracy.
Explore the new features and V7’s DICOM annotation tools today and see how they can improve your medical imaging annotation projects.
