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The MathWorks Announces Major Upgrade to MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox
NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001--
The MathWorks, Inc., the leading supplier of technical computing
software for engineers and scientists, today announced the release of
MATLAB® Image Processing Toolbox 3, the latest version of the
Company's offering for image processing and analysis.
MathWorks customers can also solve challenging multidisciplinary
problems using the Image Processing Toolbox in combination with other
MATLAB Toolboxes such as Signal Processing, Wavelet, Mapping, Neural
Network, and Statistics.
New features in the Image Processing Toolbox 3 include support
for:
- Grayscale Morphology: New tools for performing mathematical
morphology operations on binary and grayscale images. New functions
range from basic operators such as dilation, erosion, opening and
closing to advanced tools, including the watershed transform,
Euclidean distance transforms, and reconstruction-based operators
useful for analysis and segmentation.
- Spatial Transformations: New functions for applying a variety of
spatial transformations to images and points. Supported transform
types include affine, projective, polynomial, piecewise linear, local
weighted mean and user-defined.
- Image Registration: New functions for registering (aligning) two
images including an interactive control point selection tool, subpixel
control-point refinement, and fast normalized cross correlation.
- Deblurring: New fundamental algorithms for image deblurring.
Algorithms include Lucy-Richardson, regularized and Wiener deblurring,
each of which supports multidimensional problems.
- DICOM File Format Support: New support for reading image data
and metadata in DICOM format, which is used for the storage of digital
images in medical imaging.
``As a long-time user of the Image Processing Toolbox, I am happy
to see significant additions to Version 3 which will be useful in my
research and development of new techniques for cardiac MRI,'' said
Peter Kellman of the National Institute of Health. ``The medical
imaging world is moving to the DICOM standard, therefore, this
addition is essential to keeping the tool competitive. The new
grayscale morphology functions will be important for advanced
segmentation research. The geometric transformation tools are welcome
to those of us who work with distorted images.''
``More than 10,000 customers are now using Image Processing Toolbox
algorithms and MATLAB's array-based language and graphics,'' said Steve
Eddins, Manager, Image Processing Development at The MathWorks. ``The
toolbox's added support for multidimensional image processing opens up
new possibilities in fields ranging from medical imaging and physics
to geoscience.''
Image Processing Toolbox 3 requires MATLAB 6 and starts at $900.
The toolbox is currently shipping for Microsoft® Windows® 95, 98,
2000, NT, Linux, and Unix. Quantity and education discounts are
available. Additional information can be found on The MathWorks Web
site at www.mathworks.com.
About The MathWorks, Inc.
The MathWorks develops technical computing software for engineers
and scientists in industry and education. An extensive family of
products, based on MATLAB and Simulink®, provides high-productivity
tools for solving challenging mathematical, computational, controls,
and DSP and communications problems. The MathWorks products serve
those in education and the following industries: automotive,
aerospace, telecommunications and data communications, government,
process industries, electronics, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals,
finance and economics, earth and planetary sciences, and
instrumentation. Employing more than 700 people worldwide, The
MathWorks was founded in 1984. Visit www.mathworks.com for more
information.
MATLAB and Simulink are registered trademarks of The MathWorks,
Inc. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Contact:
Liz Callanan
The MathWorks, Inc.
(508) 647-7417
liz@mathworks.com
or
Jim Issokson
Sterling Hager, Inc.
(617) 926-6665
jissokson@sterlinghager.com
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