Workstation environment for image processing in nuclear medicine

Abstract

In this paper we describe the image processing environment for nuclear medicine applications that we arc developing on general purpose graphical UNIX workstations. The environment that is described in this paper has a truly distributed, object oriented architecture. The basic building blocks are formed by the Interviews¹, Allegro² and NIH-Class³ (formerly OOPS) toolkits. These tookits are developed in C++, and together they provide the basic functions for constructing a distributed object-oriented environment. They were developed as separate, independent libraries, although Interviews and Allegro were developed by the same group. The fact that it was easy to integrate these rather large libraries must be attributed to the use of OO techniques. We will elaborate on the functionality contained in these libraries below. The components, implemented partly on the basis of these libraries are also described.