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

• The Menu Bar at the top provides quick access to the File, View, Image Processing and Segmentation & Labeling pull-down menus.
• The Quick Access Bar for View Options displays the most frequently used view settings.
• The 2D Slice Visualization section displays the image scan in all three directions.
• The Histogram section contains image statistics and related view settings.
• The Status section shows the image's size and resolution, as well as the intermediate results after applying filters.
• The Workflow Manager shows all the performed steps of your Image Processing workflow.
• The Image Processing and Segmentation section contains two tabs:
  • The Image Processing tab contains all the tools needed to crop, re-size, rotate, and filter the gray value images.
  • The Segmentation & Labeling tab contains all the tools needed to label and segment gray value images.

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

Processing files for import involves several steps. First, apply different processing tools in the Image Processing tab. Then, move to the Segmentation and Labeling tab to segment the image with the chosen method or label the image with the watershed algorithm. A result file (*.gdr) for the image processing and segmentation/labeling is then 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. You can create new and improved 3D models at any time by using different processing, segmentation, or labeling parameters.