When I was a freelance programmer in the ’90s, one of my larger projects was Mac medical imaging application called GreasePencil. The app was the brainchild of Dr. William Glenn in southern California, and a coarse description might be “Photoshop for medical imaging.” You could read all sorts of images (e.g., CT, MRI, xray), manipulate them, add annotations, and output them in various formats. There were also satellite applications to serve as print spoolers, tape readers, and film scanners plus stand-alone viewer apps for Mac and Windows.
The most interesting output was the Key Image Summary Report, written “KISR” and pronounced “kisser”. It summarized a study on one page for the referring physician. The summary included a text write-up and snapshots from various key images from the images. There was even a talking KISR with voice annotations.
I recently caught up with Bill and was pleased to hear that he still uses GreasePencil for reading films on his 30″ monitor, even though it’s a pre-carbon app that has to run in Classic mode. He’s got a web site for NetKISR, Inc. where you can see some sample KISRs and his newest venture, virtual colonoscopies.