How to use the Pie interface, step by step

• Open a Dicom image and look for the 'Pie Medical' option in the menu of the image window. This will only be displayed if one or more of the analysis packages of Pie Medical Imaging are detected.
  
  • No, the option is not displayed.
    1. Make sure you have installed one or more Pie analysis packages.
    2. The viewer has failed to detect analysis software automatically. Bypass this by starting the Dicom viewer with '-pie' as an argument. F.e. 'Dicomviewer.exe -pie'.
    3. This has forced the viewer to display the menu item.
    
  • Yes, the option is available. Go to the next step.
  
  
  
  'Pie Medical' option displayed in the menu
  



• Open the interface by pressing 'Pie Medical' in the menu of the image window. Check for the text in the 6 analysis button, the packages installed/found are not lined-out.
  
  • No, the installed Pie analysis packages are lined-out.
    1. Close the Pie Medical interface.
    2. Open the Settings window. (File/Settings)
    3. Select the 'Pie Medical Interface' tab.
    4. Press 'Refresh links'.
    The links to the installed analysis packages are now updated. If there still is no link displayed to your installed analysis package(s), set the links yourself by pressing the 'Browse' buttons and by selecting the application. You can also enter the links, with or without any arguments, yourself. Click on the edit-box to edit.
    
    The link to QCA is displayed
    
  
  
  • Yes, the installed analysis packages are available. Go to the next step.
  
  
  
  LVA, QCA and QVA links are found
  



• Make sure the Pie selection tool is linked to the left mouse button. Open the toolbar in the image window and see if the first button displays the Pie selection icon. If not, press this button and select the Pie selection tool.
  Now you can select images using the left mouse button.
  
  
  Pie selection tool avaialble with the left mouse button
  


• The Pie interface can hold 6 or 12 images, see the Settings window to change this.
  


• To clear the selected images, press 'Clear all' in the interface.