The different sections of the 3D Image Processing dialog provide various tools for individual image processing and segmentation:

• The Menu Bar at the top offers a quick access to the File, View, Image Processing and Segmentation & Labeling pull-down menus.
• The quick access bar for View Options shows often required view settings.
• The 2D Slice Visualization section shows the image scan in all three directions.
• The Histogram section contains image statistics and related view settings.
• The Status section displays the image size and resolution as well as the intermediate results from applied filters.
• The Workflow Manager displays all steps of the Image Processing workflow.
• The Image Processing and Segmentation section contains two tabs:
  • The Image Processing tab contains all available tools for cropping, resizing, rotating and filtering the gray value images.
  • The Segmentation & Labeling tab contains all available tools for segmenting and labeling the gray value images.

To abort the image processing either click Discard Image or Close Dialog. Discard Image closes the dialog and removes the gray value image from the memory and thus, from the GeoDict visualization area. Close Dialog only closes the dialog, while the gray value image is still in memory and shown in the visualization area. Otherwise, the dialog remains open, even after labeling or segmenting an image.

The processing of files for import can be done in several steps. You can simply apply different processing tools in the Image Processing tab and then move to the Segmentation and Labeling tab to segment the image with the chosen method or label the image with the watershed algorithm. Then a result file (*.gdr) for the image processing and segmentation/labeling is created and the segmented structure (*.gdt) or labeled image (*.g32) is saved to a new folder according to the given Result File Name as described here. New and improved 3D models can be created anytime by using different processing, segmentation, or labeling parameters.