Global Settings

The global settings allow for configuring the behavior and appearance of the ImFusion Suite. You can open the settings dialog via the Settings button in the menu bar.

General settings

The General section lists settings related to the general behavior/appearance of the software.

General settings

The options are:

• Show buttons text in main window toolbar: If enabled the topbar of the software will have a text label next to each button. If disabled only the icons will be shown.
• Show load options on start-up: If enabled the Load Options will be shown on start-up of the software.
• Show annotation toolbar on start-up: If enabled the annotation widget will be shown on start-up.
• Ignore patient transformation: Enable this option to ignore the patient transformation stored with a dataset.
• Show Windowing Min/Max: If enabled the windowing of a dataset can be set as minimum and maximum values. Otherwise the windowing is set via window and level.
• Always show Settings for algorithm: If enabled a controller will open even for algorithms which do not need to be configured by default.
• Show confirmation dialog at "Close all": Enable this button if you want to be asked for confirmation if you click on Close all
• Remember algorithm location: If enabled algorithms will open at the same location as before. Otherwise they will be placed at the next available location.
• UI scale: You can choose a scaling of the UI additional to the dpi scaling of the operating system.
• Maximum Log File Size: You can choose the maximum file size of the logs generated by the software (in MB).
• Default Folder for Models: Define a default location where the software is supposed to look for machine learning models.

Visualization settings

The Visualization settings define in particular how datasets are visualized in the software.

Visualization settings

The options are:

• Default Volume Render: You can choose between Global Illumination Volume Render and General Purpose Volume Renderer. While the first option provides global illumination and other advanced visualization features, the second option has support for e.g. MIP rendering and deformation support. In addition, the General Purpose Volume Renderer has lower system requirements and is therefore suitable for low-end systems.
• Max. Number of Volumes to Display: The number of volumes which can be displayed at once is limited by your graphics card and this parameter. You can increase or decrease this parameter within the range supported by your GPU in order to adjust the performance of the software to your needs.
• Volume Renderer Interaction LOD: You can turn this feature Off, On, or enabled it dynamically by choosing Auto based on Volume Size in MB:. If enabled a downsampled version, using the resolution you define, of the volume will be displayed during user interactions.
• Orient slices to normal to volume: You can change the position of the MPR slices by double clicking in the 3D view. If this option here is enabled not only the location will be set but also the orientation of the slices will be chosen such that the are orthogonal to the normal at the point you clicked at.
• Show slice thickness: If enabled the thickness of the MPR slices will be visually indicated.
• Show slice interaction lines: If enabled the MPR slices will be visually indicated in every view.
• Enable animations: If enabled several movements within the software will be animated. E.g. transformation changes. You can adjust the Animation speed to your liking.
• Show points as crosses: If enabled point based annotations will display each point using a cross instead of a circle/sphere.
• Background color: Choose the default background color of the DisplayWidget.
• Primary Slice Blending Color: Among other options we support a color based blending option. Here you can define the primary color to be used for the first dataset.
• Secondary Slice Blending Color: Among other options we support a color based blending option. Here you can define the primary color to be used for the second dataset.

DataWidget settings

The Data Widget settings define the behavior of the DataWidget.

DataWidget settings

The options are:

• Visibility Follows Selection: If enabled, the visibility of datasets will be automatically chosen based on the selection in the widget. Otherwise the visibility needs to be explicitly set using the visibility button left to the dataset entry (eye icon).
• Automatically Link Windowing per Modality: If enabled the windowing of datasets of the same modality will be linked. E.g. all CTs will use the same windowing per default.
• Automatically Link Pose per Group: If enabled each group of datasets will be moved together if the pose of one dataset gets changed.
• Show Thumbnails and Icons: If enabled a thumbnail or icon will be displayed for each dataset, indicating its content.

Overlay settings

The Overlays settings lets you configure the behavior of the overlays shown in the DisplayWidget. These include the orientation indicators, the patient information, and some more.

Overlay settings

The options are:

• Show Patient Information: You can choose if the patient information, e.g. extracted from Dicom tags, should be displayed Nowhere, in the First view only, or in All views.
• Patient Information Format: You can specify the format used for displaying the patient information in the views.
• Show Scale Information: You can enable rulers in a Vertical and/or Horizontal position.
• Show Data Offscreen Indicators: If enabled, for each datasets which is currently not visible from the perspective of the views, will be indicated with a specific marker pointing in the direction to the dataset.
• Show Orientation Markers in MPR views: If enabled we will display orientation markers for the patient orientation in the MPR views.
• Default DICOM Orientation Helper Type: We support orientation indicators for Biped as well as Quadruped.
• Orientation Overlay: You can switch between a Cube with corresponding labels, a Head, or a *Body which indicate the patient orientation in the 3D view.
• Show Pixel Information: If enabled information corresponding to the pixel under the current mouse position will be displayed.
• Show Pixel Information Units: If enabled and available, the unit of the pixel values will be displayed.
• Show Pixel Information Storage Values: If enabled the value of the pixel as it is stored in memory will be displayed in addition to the interpreted value.
• Pixel Information Coordinates: You can choose to enable that the pixel position gets added to this information. The options are Pixel Coodinates and/or World Coordinates.
• Style of Pixel/Mesh Info Overlay: Finally you can choose whether the pixel information gets shown in a Info box or a Tooltip.

Interaction mapper

In the Interaction mapper setting you can configure the interactions with e.g. our views to your preferences.

Interaction mapper

License information

The License information section provides you with several informations linked to your current license configuration. You can find the license key, the hardware token of your system, the licensed modules and the expiration date being displayed. If you need to change your license key use the Reset License Information button: it will remove currently active license key from your local system so that you can enter a new key on next start of the application. Finally you can configure a proxy server in case your network setup require this.

License information

Import/Export settings

Depending on the configuration of your software you will see a different amount of entries in the Import/Export section. Each entry represents one of the available IO algorithms that can import and/or export data and enables you to configure its default settings.

Plugin settings

Additional plugins can register individual settings pages. You can find the actual documentation of these settings in the particular plugin documentation, for instance DICOM settings.