User`s guide

R14SP3
20-2
Support for Two New Medical Image File Formats
The toolbox now includes functions for reading metadata and image data from two
additional medical image file formats. Analyze 7.5 and Interfile. For more information,
see Reading and Writing Data in Medical Formats.
New Point, Rectangle, and Line Functions
The toolbox includes three functions, impoint, imline, and imrect, that you can use to
create draggable points, lines, and rectangles in a figure window. These functions can be
used as building blocks for other GUI tools.
Image Tool Enhancements and Improvements
New Distance Tool
The Image Tool now includes a new Distance tool that you can use to determine the
distance between any two points in an image. This tool is also available in the toolbox's
suite of modular interactive GUI tools. Using the imdistline function you can add
the Distance tool to GUIs of your own creation. For more information, see Measuring
Features in an Image
Adjust Contrast Tool Enhancements and Improvements
The Adjust Contrast tool has been redesigned to provide better usability. For examples,
the Adjust Contrast tool Window/Level capability is now a separate mode with its own
activation button.
New Utility Functions for Use with Profile-Based Color Space Conversion
Functions
The toolbox has two new utility functions, iccroot and iccfind, for use with the profile-
based color conversion functions. For more information, see Performing Profile-based
Color Space Conversions.
New Documentation on Processing Image Sequences
The Image Processing Toolbox User's Guide includes a new section, Working with Image
Sequences, that describes which toolbox functions can be used with sequences of image,
also known as image stacks