Aware's AccuRad Suite of Software Development Tools and Applications are
Designed for Remote Image Viewing Across a Bandwidth-Constrained Network.
BEDFORD, Mass., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq:
AWRE), a global provider of imaging and biometrics software, today
announced that it will be showcasing AccuRad(TM), its newest medical
imaging product suite at "ATA 2007", this week at the Annual Meeting of the
American Telemedicine Association, May 13 -- 15 in Nashville, Tennessee. In
its booth at ATA, Aware offers a live demonstration of AccuRad's features,
including its image compression, streaming, and viewing.
"There is strong demand to make medical images more accessible for
remote review, diagnosis, and collaboration between locations, and users
are often constrained by limited network capacity or bandwidth," commented
David Benini, Aware's director of product marketing. "AccuRad provides
solution developers with software components that address these problems
with DICOM-compatible JPEG 2000 and JPIP image compression, streaming, and
viewing technology."
Aware's AccuRad is comprised of three software development kits (SDKs)
that include libraries, sample applications with source code, a command
line codec, and a Windows GUI tool with viewer. Aware's AccuRad
J2KSuite(TM) enables JPEG 2000 compression and decompression. The AccuRad
JPIPStream(TM) toolkit enables a developer to build JPIP-compliant servers
and clients. Finally, AccuRad DICOMView(TM) ActiveX component combines the
latest delivery and display technologies for viewing medical images in a
standard browser and is easily integrated into other viewing applications.
Aware's AccuRad solution also includes implementations of the JPEG 2000
and JPIP imaging standards, which employ advanced compression and streaming
techniques to greatly reduce the file size of medical images and improve
transmission time. In addition to smaller file sizes, AccuRad's region of
interest viewing and progressive display dramatically speeds up the image
viewing process and is significantly more efficient for remote users, such
as teleradiologists, accessing the images and volumes.
All Aware products are fully supported and backed by the expertise
developed by providing wavelet-based compression solutions since 1987. For
more information about AccuRad and Aware's medical imaging products, please
visit its ATA booth #523 or website at http://www.aware.com/medical.
About JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard designed for a broad range
of applications, including the compression and transmission of medical
images. The standard is based on wavelet technology and a layered file
format that offer lossless compression, diagnostic-quality lossy
compression, and advanced system-level functionality. JPEG 2000 was created
by the Joint Photographic Experts Group ("JPEG") and standardized by ITU-T
SG16 and ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 29 WG1. The standard is described by ITU-T T.800
and ISO/IEC 15444. Over 320 organizations from 21 countries contributed
their expertise to the new standard which was formally approved in January,
2001.
About JPIP
JPIP is a client/server communication protocol defined in Part 9 of the
JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444:9) suite of standards, officially entitled
"Interactivity Tools, APIs and Protocols." JPIP enables a server to
transmit only those portions of a JPEG 2000 image that are applicable to
the client's needs. In conjunction with either HTTP or UDP protocols, JPIP
enables the client to access metadata or other contents from the image
file. This capability results in a vast improvement in bandwidth efficiency
and speed when performing important and valuable image viewing tasks in a
client/server environment, while reducing the storage and processing
requirements of the client.
About DICOM
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is an
application layer network protocol for the transmission of medical images,
waveforms, and ancillary information which supports a wide range of medical
images across the fields of radiology, cardiology, pathology and dentistry.
JPEG 2000 has been selected for inclusion in the DICOM standard for medical
image transfer. DICOM Supplement 61 was ratified in November 2001 adding
JPEG 2000 transfer Syntaxes to the protocol.
About Aware
Aware is a veteran of the biometrics industry, providing biometric and
imaging software components used in government systems worldwide since
1992. Aware's interoperable, standard-compliant, field-proven imaging
products are used in a number of applications, from border management to
criminal justice to medical imaging. Aware is also a leading technology
supplier for the telecommunications industries. For more than ten years,
Aware has pioneered innovations at telecommunications standards-setting
organizations and continues to develop and market DSL silicon intellectual
property and test and diagnostics products. Its StratiPHY(TM) IP product
line supports DSL standards, including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been
broadly licensed to leading semiconductor companies. Telecom equipment
vendors and phone companies use Aware's DSL test and diagnostics modules
and Dr. DSL(R) software to help provision DSL circuits globally. Aware is a
publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
http://www.aware.com
Safe Harbor Warning
Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding
future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates
or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL and
biometrics markets. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated
by such statements. The biometric factors include, but are not limited to:
market acceptance of our biometric products, and changes is contracting
practices of government or law enforcement agencies, announcements or
introductions of new products by our competitors, delays, failures or
problems in our biometric products, delays in the adoption of new industry
biometric standards, and competitive pressures resulting in lower software
product revenues. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section
titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2006 and other reports and filings made with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aware, AccuRad, AccuRad J2KSuite, AccuRad JPIPStream, AccuRad
DICOMView, StratiPHY, and Dr. DSL are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of
their respective owners.
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CONTACT:
Sarah LaLiberte of Aware, Inc.,
+1-781-687-0695, sarahl@aware.com
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