fix(tools): label the scale overlay in px without pixel spacing and honour a user calibration

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Context

ScaleOverlayTool picks the scale size from the width of the view in world units and always labels it in mm or cm. World units are millimetres only on an image with pixel spacing, and the tool did not look at the calibration either:

• Image without pixel spacing (ultrasound without Pixel Spacing, secondary capture, photographs): world units are pixels, so a bar 250 pixels long reads 25 cm. The measurement tools label the same image in px (getCalibratedLengthUnitsAndScale).
• User calibration (calibrateImageSpacing, OHIF's calibration line): a world length L measures L / calibration.scale mm, but the bar was drawn and labelled as if it were L mm. With a scale of 2, a bar labelled 25 cm covered 12.5 cm.

No issue was open for it; found while checking which tools label lengths without going through the calibration.

Changes & Results

• ScaleOverlayTool._computeScale(viewport, worldWidth, worldHeight, location): returns the scale size in the image's unit and the world length it covers. The unit is px when the image data reports hasPixelSpacing === false, and mm otherwise, so volumes and viewports without that field are unchanged. A calibration.scale sets how many world units one mm covers.
• renderAnnotation draws the bar over that world length, and _getTextLines(scaleSize, unit) labels it: mm and cm as before, N px without pixel spacing.
• renderAnnotation draws nothing when no scale size fits the view. computeScaleSize returns undefined for a view too small for the smallest size, and the label then threw; dividing by a calibration makes that reachable (pointed out by CodeRabbit).
• New jest test packages/tools/test/scaleOverlayUnits.jest.js. It renders the overlay on a 600 × 600 view with the SVG helpers mocked, and checks the label and the length of the bar for five cases: pixel spacing, no pixel spacing, a user calibration, a viewport without image data, and a calibration under which no size fits.

Image	Before	After
Pixel spacing, 600 mm across	25 cm over 250 mm	unchanged
No pixel spacing, 600 px across	25 cm over 250 px	250 px over 250 px
User calibration 2, 300 mm across	25 cm over 250 units (12.5 cm)	10 cm over 200 units

Not changed: an ultrasound image calibrated by SequenceOfUltrasoundRegions has no pixel spacing, so its bar is now in px. Using the region's physical deltas would need to decide which region the bar belongs to when it spans more than one; the label is at least no longer wrong.

Testing

Verified:

• On main, the no-pixel-spacing and user-calibration cases fail on the label (25 cm). The no-fit case throws Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toString') without the guard. With the change all five pass.
• Breaking one thing at a time fails only the test that covers it: always using mm fails only the no-pixel-spacing case; treating a missing hasPixelSpacing as false fails only the viewport without image data; ignoring the calibration, or drawing the bar over the scale size instead of its world length, fails only the user-calibration case; labelling px in cm fails only the no-pixel-spacing case.
• prettier --check, oxlint, tsc --noEmit for core and tools, jest, and the full karma suite pass locally.

To try it:

1. Enable the Scale Overlay tool on an image without pixel spacing, for example a secondary capture.
2. Before, the scale reads in cm; now it reads in px.
3. On an image with pixel spacing, apply utilities.calibrateImageSpacing(imageId, renderingEngine, 2). The scale now shrinks to match the calibrated lengths.

Checklist

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Tested Environment

• "OS: Windows 11"
• "Node version: 24.13.0"
• "Browser: Chrome Headless (karma)"

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Scale overlays display measurements in pixels when image pixel spacing is unavailable, and in millimeters when it is available. Larger millimeter measurements continue to be shown in centimeters.
  • Scale line lengths now account for user calibration, keeping the displayed line consistent with its measurement label.
  • If the configured scale does not fit the view, no scale overlay is drawn.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The scale overlay selects a display unit and world-space length based on pixel spacing and calibration. Tests cover labels and line lengths for pixel spacing, calibration, missing image data, and cases where no scale fits.

Changes

Scale overlay rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Calculate and render scale labels packages/tools/src/tools/ScaleOverlayTool.ts, packages/tools/test/scaleOverlayUnits.jest.js	The tool selects pixels when pixel spacing is absent and millimeters otherwise. It uses calibration when choosing the scale size and positioning the line, and formats labels in the selected unit. Tests cover labels and line lengths across four scenarios, plus cases where no scale fits.

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Change: Bug fix

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The scale overlay’s unit and calibration behavior is covered by the changed test, and no actionable merge risk remains after normal checks.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f01e0

The change affects how the viewer presents scale measurements, but the examined path does not add a privileged action or expand access to image data. Security coverage outside that path remains incomplete.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The examined change’s direct effect is the current overlay’s visible label and geometry; its rendering path shows no new privileged sink or cross-service action.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Image spacing and calibration values cross from viewport image data into display calculations. The changed code does not use either value as free-form rendered text.

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