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Features

Designing and Building your Image Store

Designing your image database is as straightforward as deciding on the information you want to store. You set up a simple list of the fields in the database - the items of information you want to keep - and, because you can add and delete fields very easily in Treasury, there is no need to make sure you have thought of every piece of information you might want in your database before you start.

You can enter data into your database either by automatically extracting it from files stored on disk, or by entering it manually. Treasury also allows data to be inserted automatically into your database fields through the generation of numeric sequencers or dates and times.

Freedom to View your Images

Treasury has a straightforward graphical tool for creating different views of your database. If you choose, each image in the database can automatically generate a thumbnail view, making it very easy to browse through the images to pick out the ones you want. Having selected one or more of these images, you can then select a viewer to look at the images and its associated data in more detail. The viewers can if you wish be linked in a hierarchy which allows you to move easily from one view to another in a logical sequence. In a medical application, for instance, the first viewer might have the latest patient radiograph with subsequent viewers showing historical images for the same patient.

Finding the Right Image

Once you have captured your images, you need to be able to find the ones you want efficiently. As well as simple, unstructured browsing through your images, you will probably want to retrieve those images (and their associated data) which meet certain criteria. You might, for example, want to find all the images relating to a particular laboratory sample or patient record. Whatever your criteria, Treasury has an extensive set of search facilities to allow you to find the relevant images quickly and easily. Each station where the images are accessed will be equipped with a copy of Treasury and you simply enter your selection criteria. Treasury then automatically searches the data attached to each image, picks out the correct image and displays it to you.

Treasury Manages your Existing Files too

You may already have a number of images stored in files on PCs and one or more ways of acquiring images, such as an image analysis system. Normally these image files will be stored in various formats such as TIFF, BMP, PCX or JPEG compressed. Treasury understands these file formats as well as many others.

Easy Links to other Windows Software Packages

Very often you will want to 'attach' another piece of data or a report to an image. This might, for example, be an Excel spreadsheet storing a set of results from an analysis carried out on an image or some notes stored in a word processing package format. Treasury has a uniquely powerful feature which allows these files to be associated with a particular record in the database. Accessing this associated file is as simple as clicking on the icon of the software package. This will automatically launch the package and display the relevant data.

Built-in Scaleability

While Treasury will work very well in a comprehensive network environment with multiple PCs being used for image access, it is equally at home on a single PC with the images stored on a local hard disk or floppy disks. If you subsequently need to upgrade to two PCs just add another copy of Treasury and start accessing the database from your new PC.

Click here to download a demo version of the Treasury software.