Generating Reports
Whenever a Bone Analysis is complete, you can generate a comprehensive report of your findings in the PDF file format, which is automatically formatted with a header that includes the project title, job ID, author(s), contact information, and creation date. You can also add your institution’s logo. You should note that reports use a LaTeX template that can be easily modified for specific requirements.
Computed global measurements, slice-by-slice measurements, and screen captures taken during the current session can be included in reports. Dragonfly 3D World ZEISS edition users can also include histograms of bone mineral density distributions.
Click the Generate Report button on the Generating the Report page to automatically generate a Bone Analysis report.
Sample pages of a Bone Analysis report
A number of preliminary steps are often required before a report is generated. These include:
- Compute the global measurements that want to be included in your report (see Computing Global Measurements).
Note Dragonfly 3D World ZEISS edition users can include distributions of bone mineral density and tissue mineral density in reports by checking the BMD distribution or TMD distributionoptions (see Adding Distributions of BMD and TMD).
- Generate the required scalar and vector fields (see Computing Scalar and Vector Fields).
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Enter a report identifier, general description, and your credentials in the Credentials dialog, shown below, which appears automatically whenever you advance to the Generating the Report page.
Note Click the Browse button at the bottom of the dialog to open the Select the logo file dialog, in which you can choose the required logo. For best results, your logo file should not exceed 135 by 75 pixels.
- Compute the slice-by-slice measurements that want to be included in your report (see Computing Slice-by-Slice Measurements).
- Prepare screenshots that illustrate your key findings (see Preparing Screenshots).
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Compute the global measurements that want to be included in your report (see Computing Global Measurements).
Note Dragonfly 3D World ZEISS edition users can include distributions of bone mineral density and tissue mineral density in reports by checking the BMD distribution or TMD distributionoptions, as shown below (see Adding Distributions of BMD and TMD).
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Generate the required scalar and vector fields (see Computing Scalar and Vector Fields).
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Advance to the Generating the Report page.
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Enter your credentials and other information in the Credentials dialog, if required, which appears automatically whenever you advance to the Generating the Report page.
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Prepare screenshots that illustrate your key findings (see Preparing Screenshots).
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Compute the slice-by-slice measurements that want to be included in your report and check the Add Slice Analysis results to report option, as shown below (see Computing Slice-by-Slice Measurements and Adding Slice Analysis Results).
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Click the Generate Report button.
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Select a destination folder and file name for the report in the Select a report file dialog.
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Click the Save button.
Adding Distributions of BMD and TMD
Dragonfly 3D World ZEISS edition users can add histograms of bone mineral density (BMD.Me) distribution and tissue mineral density (TMD.BV and TMD.Co) distributions to Bone Analysis reports. Plotted histograms include labels for the 5th percentile, 95th percentile, mode, mean, and full width half maximum (FWHM) computed for calibrated bone data, as shown below.
Histogram of bone mineral density distribution
To add a histogram of bone mineral density distribution to a report, compute the required BMD and/or TMD measurements and then check the BMD distribution and/or TMD distribution options, as shown below.
Global Measurements dialog
Adding Slice Analysis Results
In addition to the global measurements available for bone morphometric indices, per slice measurements for image data and regions of interest can be added to reports. In this case, each measurement made on a unique view of the data will appear on a separate page, as shown below.
Sample page of per slice measurement
Reported slice analysis results include the view from which the measurement was obtained, the object analyzed, application of a mask, and the plot of the measurement over all slices.
Check the Add Slice Analysis results to report option on the Generating the Report page, as shown below, if you want to include the slice-by-slice measurements in your Bone Analysis report.
Generating the Report page
Preparing Screenshots
A multiple screenshots panel is available on the left sidebar to collect screen captures that can be included in generated reports. Metadata can be easily integrated in reports by clicking the Define Image Metadata button on the Multiple Screenshots panel, shown below.
Multiple Screenshots panel
- Choose the maximum resolution for the screenshots that you plan to capture from the 2D and/or 3D resolution text boxes, recommended.
The maximum resolution will be calculated from the largest dimension of the selected view and the aspect ratio will be maintained. For example, if the selected view contains 900 by 700 pixels and you choose a resolution of 1024, the exported image will be 1024 by 796 pixels.
Note The maximum dimension may be limited. This limitation is based on the capability of your system and the type of view selected — 2D or 3D. You should note that the maximum dimension possible for 3D views is 4096 pixels.
- Select the required view and then adjust your image accordingly. You can adjust the zoom, pan, and window levels, as well as add annotations and overlays to highlight particular areas of interest.
- Drag the Camera
icon from the current view and drop it onto the Multiple Screenshots panel, as shown below.
The number of images is updated automatically.
- Click the Define Image Metadata button, if you want to enter title, caption, and/or description for the screenshot.
The Image Metadata dialog appears.
You can include a title, caption, and description for the screenshot. These will added to the generated report.
- Drag and drop additional images onto the Multiple Screenshots panel, as required.
Note If you need to capture a new image at a different resolution, you need to change the resolution before you add the new image.
Note You can scroll through the thumbnails with the mouse scroll wheel to review your captured images.
- Do the following to export the screenshot(s), optional.
- Click the Export button.
- Select a destination folder and file name for the screenshot in the Save As dialog.
You should note that a sequential number will be automatically appended to the name of each exported screenshot.
- Select a file format — BMP, EPS, GIF, JPG, PNG, PPM, or TIFF — for the screenshot (see Supported File Formats for more information about the different file formats supported in Dragonfly).
- Click the Save button.
