Subject: PAPYRUS file format

From: Yves LIGIER <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 08:34:56 GMT

The Digital Imaging Unit (UIN : Unite d'Imagerie Numerique) of
  the University Hospital of Geneva is pleased to announce 
  the new releases of :

     - the OSIRIS software for medical image display & processing
     - the PAPYRUS file format based on DICOM (specification + toolkit).

  and a new WWW Medical Imaging home page.
            http://expasy.hcuge.ch/www/UIN/UIN.html

OSIRIS DESCRIPTION

  OSIRIS is a software package for the display and manipulation of 
  multimodality medical images. It was developed as part of a 
  hospital-wide Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) 
  at the University Hospital of Geneva (Switzerland).
  OSIRIS provides (just a few characteristics):
       - Interactive graphic user interface
       - Customizable display modes for images sets
       - Zoom, rotation, flipping of image sets
       - Color adjustment on full dynamic range
       - Magnifying glass
       - Annotations
       - Regions of interest (polygons, ...)
       - Measurements (distance, angle, surface, volume, ...)
       - Filters
       - Multiplanar sections of tomographic images
       - Region growing for automatic image segmentation
       - Histogram equalization
  
  OSIRIS is available for different platforms :
       - Macintosh
       - Unix / X11 / OSF-Motif
       - PC / Windows3.1
 
  OSIRIS is a non commercial software distributed free of charge.
  Users interested in developing their own specific tools can
  obtain the full source code (developer license). 

PAPYRUS DESCRIPTION

  PAPYRUS is an image file format based on the ACR/NEMA standard.
  The last release (version 3.0) is based on the latest DICOM 3.0 standard.
  The specification are public domain as well as the toolkit
  which allows to easily read and write PAPYRUS image files.

ANONYMOUS FTP

  OSIRIS is available on the following  anonymous FTP server : 
  Just log in as anonymous and put your email address in the password field.

           expasy.hcuge.ch   in the directory : /pub/Osiris
           ftp://expasy.hcuge.ch/pub/Osiris

WWW

  More information is also available on the following WWW site

              http://expasy.hcuge.ch/www/UIN/UIN.html

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us :

               Dr. Yves LIGIER, Dr. Osman RATIB
               Digital Imaging Unit
               University Hospital of Geneva
               1211 GENEVA 14 - Switzerland
                Fax : + 41 22 372 61 98
                email : [email-masked]