Xinapse Systems Jim Overview

Overview of Jim Version 5.0

Jim is a medical image display package that allows easy viewing and analysis of Magnetic Resonance, x-ray CT and other types of medical image. Jim is an up-to-the-minute design with a familiar user-interface. If you can use a word processor and a presentation package, then you will quickly be up and running with Jim. Jim is NOT for clinical use. See the clinical use disclaimer for more details.

It is geared towards analysis of multi-slice and multi-dimensional image sets, and contains the tools needed for many common analysis tasks. There are two versions of each of the analysis tools in Jim's tool-set:

A version with a graphical user interface so you can try out your image analysis strategy interactively.
A command-line driven version so you can perform the analysis using your favourite scripting language.

Note: to take advantage of the command scripting facilities, you need to run Jim on a system with a command interpreter and scripting language. These are standard on Linux/Solaris/Mac OS X systems, but on Microsoft Windows platforms, you need to install a command interpreter such as that provided by Cygwin.

Version 5.0 builds on the fantastic success of Version 4.0, and has many features that you'll find indispensable. Browse this manual for full details.

It can handle images in a wide range of formats, including:

Analyze™ images from the Mayo Clinic.
The new NIFTI-1 (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative) format, designed by a consortium funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (USA).
The popular UNC format from the university of North Carolina Computer Science department (unclib). This data format was modified to include image information fields by David Plummer, University College London.

In addition, it has powerful image import facilities, to handle:

Virtually all DICOM format images
ACR-NEMA 1.0 and 2.0
GE medical systems (Genesis) format
Siemens internal (.ima) format
Bruker ParaVision™ format
Varian fdf (Flexible Data Format) images.

Virtually any medical image format not currently handled can be added on request.

Jim also has a Raw Data Converter, so that other non-supported formats can be read in.

Jim runs on most of the popular computing platforms, including:

Windows XP (all versions with SP1+ or SP2), Windows Server and Windows Vista
Linux (32-bit or AMD 64-bit processors; Red Hat 2.1 and up / SuSE 8.2 and up / SLES 8 and up recommended)
Sun/Solaris (SPARC, x64, and x86)
Macintosh (Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and later)

Jim 5.0 needs Java version 1.6.0 to be installed. For more details of the availability of this release of Java for your computer, please see the sun web site for Windows/Linux/Solaris platforms, and the apple web site for Mac OS X.

Jim comes with a fully-documented Java A.P.I. to the image formats and regions-of-interest, so that you can easily extend the image processing capabilities with your own Java programmes.

Jim comes with a free 30-day trial, so that you can install and try it out with no commitment, to make sure that it meets your requirements. Installation takes just a few minutes, and the simple, Windows-like graphical user interface and Hypertext help means that you will be up and running very quickly. Jim is NOT for clinical use. See the clinical use disclaimer for more details.

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