Interactive image manipulation system and image manipulative extension to higher level language for use by non-computer oriented personnel
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States), Jon Erickson, US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Shelburne Wilson · 1972
Two desirable attributes which should be a part of the computational capability of any nuclear medicine facility which attempts to perform a significant amount of experimental manipulation and processing of radioisotope images are: first, the ability to have easy access to and use of the large number of image manipulation programs that inevitably evolve in such a system, and secondly, the ability to rapidly produce specialized image analysis programs for specific analysis problems encountered in the course of a single research project. Ideally both of these capabilities should be available to the non-computer oriented personnel, such as the rotating medical staff, as well as the technical personnel such as the engineers and physicists. This paper describes an interactive manipulation system which provides the first of these capabilities and an extension to higher level languages which provides the second.