Software

Overlay GUI is a MATLAB-based graphical user interface which facilitates overlaying parametric maps on top of white-light images for:

• Displaying fluorescence-whitelight fused images for surgical guidance
• Exploring perceptual colormaps and plotting them on the 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram.
• Testing coloblindness compatibility
• Determining best practices for colormap and transparency visualization

Download:
Overlay GUI v4.4.1-beta [updates]

Select from 25 colormaps tailored for specific medical imaging application. Assess their appearance in grayscale using the L* channel (which is most strongly associated with perception).

Also check out the stand-alone function, goodmap, which contains over 20 different perceptually balanced colormaps, including balanced versions of ones commonly found in medical imaging.

Goodmap is extremely easy to use. Simply nest it with in the MATLAB colormap function to have access to 25 perceptually balanced or application-specific colormaps:

Instead of: colormap( 'jet' )   try   colormap( goodmap ('cube1') )

Download:
Goodmap v1.4.3 [updates]