Iiippocrates: a new software package for medical imaging applications

The display and manipulation of medical images is ;in important part of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems). Physicians handle the patient data by employing special displaying and processing techniques. The present paper studies and analyzes a sophisticated and flexible medical purpose library of image processing routines. Because the access and manipulation of medical images requires different functionalities, HIPPOCRATES contains a lot of advanced routines which perform low level and high level image processing operations, while their modular structure helps in the development of any image related applications.