What's new in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 5.1

Sep 13, 2018
  • New features:
  • Added support for the rotate and pinch-to-zoom trackpad gestures for image editing.
  • Added support for the new HEVC (High Efficiency Video Codec) when exporting on macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later.
  • Compressing images with HEVC produces up to 2x smaller files (compared to JPEG) and 40% smaller movies (compared to using H.264 compression).
  • To export using HEVC select the 'HEIC' format for images, or set the compression to 'HEVC' for .mov or .mp4 movies.
  • Added support for dragging the current frame to other applications.
  • Press Cmd-Alt and drag from inside the current frame to the Desktop to save it as an image file. Drag and Drop program setting were added in General Preferences to control the destination format.
  • Dragging to other apps creates a new app document containing the image.
  • Added support for copying the current frame to the Clipboard.
  • Added support for copying the selected lines from the DICOM Data window to the Clipboard.
  • Multiple-line selection using the Shift and Cmd keys is supported as well.
  • Fixes:
  • Selecting 'Reveal in Finder' from the Patient list contextual menu, now reveals all the image files instead of just the current one.
  • Improved support for multiframe non-DICOM images, e.g. TIFF.
  • Many minor improvements and bug fixes.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 5.0.4 (Feb 9, 2018)

  • Updated feature:
  • Copying CD images to the hard disk is now disabled by default on macOS Sierra and above.
  • A checkbox to control this behavior was added in General Preferences.
  • Fixes:
  • DICOM media with 'DICOMDIR.' files (saved with an extra dot in their filename) are no longer rejected by EMV.
  • Eliminated a crashing bug reported by our users.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 5.0.3 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • Streamlined application start-up code to improve user experience and eliminate some crashes.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 5.0.2 (Nov 3, 2017)

  • Fixes 2 crashes reported by our users.
  • Corrects various interface problems.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 5.0.1 (Sep 30, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Runs on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
  • Added more private DICOM fields descriptions to the DICOM Date viewer.
  • Added Value Multiplicity and Data Size columns to exported DICOM Data files.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed clicking between tools in Measurements pane that was messing the current tool.
  • MG images demographics didn't display the image orientation. Fixed.
  • Fixed a bug where the program was creating too many cached files.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.3.496 (May 25, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug with the auto-updating code.
  • Eliminated a crashing bug in the startup code.
  • Adjusted the image buffer to accelerate drawing.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.3.478 (Feb 10, 2016)

  • Updated Sparkle Updater framework to fix a security bug.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.3.476 (Feb 5, 2016)

  • Removed the limit to average bit rate for movies compressed with H.264. This results to increased image quality.
  • Eliminated various crashes.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.3.458 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Fixed a cine glitch introduced with 4.4.3 (Mavericks only).

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.3.454 (Dec 28, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Added controls to select either JPEG or H.264 compression for exported .MOV files.
  • Fixes:
  • Some US still images were displaying with distorted colors. Fixed.
  • Images with unusual Modality values (like PRXA and SRUS) were confusing the program. Fixed.
  • Opening a directory containing only sub-directories without checking the 'Scan for files recursively' option, was crashing the program. Fixed.
  • Cancelling a long open process was intermittently crashing the program. Fixed.
  • Exporting scaled and cropped images was producing incorrect results. Fixed.
  • Corrected a minor memory leak in the Anonymize and Export DICOM Data functions.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.2.430 (Oct 23, 2015)

  • Closing a viewer window with measurements drawn was crashing the program. Fixed.
  • Patient list items were displayed with the wrong initial size. Fixed.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.2.418 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Updated for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.1r4 (Aug 26, 2015)

  • Fixes:
  • Selecting a damaged image was crashing the Study info palette. Fixed.
  • Cine clips were playing at high speeds in some cases. Fixed.
  • Attempting to export the current frame as a movie was crashing the program. Fixed.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4.1 (Jul 22, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Live info is shown while drawing measurements.
  • Fixes:
  • Improved drawing speed of images with many measurements.
  • Rotating measurements past the image border might cause a crash. Fixed.
  • Invoking the Patient list contextual menu was sometimes causing a crash. Fixed.
  • Some images with RLE compression transfer syntax were not displayed. Fixed.
  • Closing the current window was sometimes causing a crash. Fixed.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.4 (Jun 20, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Now a 64-bit application.
  • The DICOM handling part of EMV has been rewritten: it is now based on OFFIS-DCMTK and no longer depends on QuickTime (deprecated in OS X 10.9).
  • Requires OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or later.
  • New, streamlined Export dialog: new formats, all options on a single page.
  • All OS X native formats are supported for exporting: BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PNG, PSD & TIFF for images, – MOV, MP4 & MPEG4 for movies.
  • Rectangles and ellipses can be freely rotated around their geometric center.
  • Fixes:
  • DICOM hierarchies containing more than several thousands of images might cause EMV to reach the max number of open files and stop displaying images. Fixed.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.3.11.2 (Dec 17, 2014)

  • Relaunching the app from the First-Aid Window was not working. Fixed.
  • Fixed a crash in opening the Export dialog.
  • Fixed a crash happening when closing the viewer window.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.3.11.1 (Dec 17, 2014)

  • Improved the handling of 14-bit grayscale images with bogus rescale/slope values.
  • Eliminated a crash in opening the Export dialog.
  • Eliminated a crash happening when closing the viewer window with measurements.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.3.11 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • Updated for Yosemite.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.3.10.1 (Jun 9, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue when printing on Mavericks.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.3.5 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • Strengthened handling of large files
  • Added a rich progress dialog during long operations from CD/DVD volumes
  • Fixed a few other outstanding bugs.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.3.4 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • Fixes a couple of oustanding issues.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.2.2 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Fixed a spurious crashing bug in the export dialog, as well as crashes due to malformed DICOM overlays. MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) or 10.8 (Mountain Lion) required.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.2.1.120 (Sep 5, 2012)

  • Fix for MONOCHROME2 images showing up inverted

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.2 (Jul 26, 2012)

  • Fixes bugs and adds interesting new features, such as support for calibrated measurements on ultrasound (US) images, and full support for newly released Mountain Lion.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.1 (Mar 8, 2012)

  • Fixes the first batch of bugs discovered in the fully redesigned EMV4 Mac, as well as adds new features, such as a Lion-native fullscreen mode, precision mouse tracking, and export of DICOM header data.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 4.0.0 (Feb 28, 2012)

  • Escape Medical Viewer 4.0 is a fully redesigned, native MacOS X application bringing new features, enhanced ease of use and a new, elegant user interface.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 3.2.3 (Jul 14, 2009)

  • Includes bug fixes for the standard deviation and area calculation of user measurements.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 3.2.2 (Aug 20, 2008)

  • Added Portuguese (Brazilian) localisation.
  • Fixed a crash in handling a folder containing only a folder at the top level.
  • Fixed a problem in dealing with the "Ignore DICOMDIR" user option in the Open dialog.

New in Escape Medical Viewer (EMV) 3.2.1 (Jun 18, 2008)

  • Added Spanish localisation.
  • Fixed the display of double floating metadata elements.