LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Filter Pack*

All you need to compress and decompress DICOM Videos

The Medical Multimedia Filter Pack is a suite of state-of-the-art DirectShow filters for compressing and decompressing video and audio data inside DICOM files. This feature-rich product was designed to eliminate the complexity from converting cine images and video streams to DICOM objects including X-ray Angiography (XA), Ultrasound (US), Visible Light (VL), Secondary Capture (SC) and much more. This Filter Pack utilizes the most advanced compression algorithms used in the industry and approved by the DICOM standard including MPEG-2, Motion JPEG, and JPEG2000.

The Medical Multimedia Filter Pack includes two components: the Writer and the Reader.

Writer (encode video sequences in DICOM) $495

The writer component includes the DirectShow filters that are used for creating DICOM objects with compressed video and audio data.

Key Features:

image\sqrblit.jpg Ability to create DICOM files with both video and audio using MPEG-2 compression. The user can adjust the different attributes of the MPEG-2 stream including bit rate and quality factor.

image\sqrblit.jpg Ability to create DICOM files with video data (cine images) using lossy and lossless JPEG and JPEG2000 compression with the option to adjust quality factor.

image\sqrblit.jpg Add video data to either an existing DICOM file or create a new one from a set of predefined DICOM classes or IODs.

image\sqrblit.jpg Accepts 8-bit RGB, 24-bit RGB, 16-bit UYVY or 16-bit YUY2 data.

image\sqrblit.jpg Includes a number of video processing filters including:

image\sqrblit.jpg Can be used with an existing application that uses DirectShow, or programmatically from the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging toolkit.

Examples of DICOM objects that can be created using the Writer component:

image\sqrblit.jpg Secondary Capture Multi-Frame True Color Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg Video Endoscopic Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg Video Photographic Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg Video Microscopic Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg Ultrasound Multi-frame Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg X-Ray Radiofluoroscopic Image.

image\sqrblit.jpg X-Ray Angiographic Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg Secondary Capture Multi-frame Grayscale Byte Image Storage.

image\sqrblit.jpg Secondary Capture Multi-frame Grayscale Word Image Storage.

MPEG-2 Encoding in DICOM:

image\sqrblit.jpg MPEG-2 is a high quality video compression and is primarily targeted for applications that require higher bitrates or high bandwidth usage. The DICOM standard uses MPEG-2 lossy compression with middle range quality, which typically delivers between 30 Mbytes and 60 Mbytes per minute of video.

image\sqrblit.jpg The DICOM MPEG-2 objects created using the writer fully adhere to the rules of MPEG-2 encoding in DICOM which are described by the new transfer syntax “MPEG-2 Main Profile @ Main Level” (1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.100).

image\sqrblit.jpg Some of the typical modalities that can take advantage of MPEG-2 encoding in DICOM include Endoscopy, Cardiology and Micro-surgery.

DirectShow filters included as part of the Writer component:

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD DICOM Write Filter.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD MPEG-2 Standard Video Encoder.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD MPEG-2 Multiplexer.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD MCMP-MJPEG Video Codec.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD Auto Contrast Filter.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD Auto Intensity Filter.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD Auto Level Filter.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD RGB Converter.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD Video Text Overlay Filter.

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD Video Crop Filter.

Reader (play DICOM videos in any media player) $49

The reader component includes a set of DirectShow filters that register into the Windows collection of multimedia drivers and integrates with any application using DirectShow. Existing video software, such as Windows® Media Player® and Ulead Media Studio®, can utilize these filters to play video (cine) data in a DICOM file.

Key Features:

image\sqrblit.jpg Can be used with an existing application that supports DirectShow, or programmatically from the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging toolkit.

image\sqrblit.jpg Ability to play or Cine any DICOM file with any type of compression including MPEG-2, lossy and lossless JPEG and JPEG2000.

image\sqrblit.jpg Fast and optimized video decompression.

image\sqrblit.jpg Playback options include control of the stream speed by changing the frame playback rate. In addition to the basic stream and speed control functionality, LEADTOOLS developers can "preview" a LEAD DICOM dataset in memory before saving to disk.

image\sqrblit.jpg DICOM Cine Playback - DICOM Cine Loop:

image\sqrblit.jpg A cine loop is the continuous display of a set of images or frames that convey the effect of motion and is considered a very useful diagnostic tool. With the help of the reader the user can treat DICOM cine as a regular video file:

DirectShow filters included as part of the reader:

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD DICOM Read Filter

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD MPEG-2 Video Decoder

image\sqrblit.jpg LEAD MPEG Audio Converter

This product may be added to the following:

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite

*Using the LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Filter Pack requires a LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Toolkit License.