Imaging software customization

For examination of X-Ray images the customer needs standard hard- and software as given in table 4 and 5. As mentioned before the directory can be customised to specification defined by the customer. 

For HCS to be fully accepted by academia, several conditions will need to be fulfilled. Current HCS instruments are closed black boxes and their expensive maintenance contracts do not allow any hardware or software modifications for adaptation to the diverse needs of academic research. Academic research is typically more diversified than pharmaceutical industry research and the instruments need to be more customizable than they are now. In addition, the image and data formats need to be accessible and open. In academia data is shared between collaborators and will be analyzed with various, partly custom-made software. Therefore the data needs to be accessible and open. Lastly, the yearly costs of maintenance contracts and licenses are particularly difficult to finance in academic research that relies heavily on grants. Grants typically do not cover licensing costs or if they do, when the grant runs out, new sources of funding must be found. In reality, those costs must generally be covered by institutional funds. 

Some of the most elegant work in data reduction for natural products screening has been reported in the area of diversity assessment, as discussed earlier [10]. Several of these examples involve LC/UV/MS analysis of natural product extracts on an extremely large scale. The resulting data were converted to the netCDF format and evaluated with customized software. Three-dimensional images were generated for the visualization of sample component differences, and a measure of similarity was calculated to allow for diversity assessment. This approach was also applied to the automahe deconvoluhon of the mass spectra of secondary metabolites from LC-MS data with factor analysis [117]. 

Currently, all vendors provide software conforming to the DICOM standard, and agree to a commitment to that effect to all customers. Compliance with this standard establishes a common format for imaging systems connecting hardware and software components, and allows interoperability for transfer of images and associated information among multiple vendors devices. The DICOM standard is particularly useful in the implementation of the Picture Archival and Communication System (PACS), which is discussed here. 

First, a 3D stmcture is designed using CAD software. Data obtained from computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) medical scans can be used to create a customized CAD model. This CAD model is then expressed in a series of cross-sectional layers. The complex scaffold architecture must be built using layer-by-layer (LBL) manufacturing processes known collectively as solid free-form fabrication (SFF). 

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