3D Slicer

3D Slicer

3D Slicer is a software tool that allows the loading and manipulation of DICOM images; it is designed for image analysis and scientific visualization. This license has no restrictions on use in commercial or academic projects. It is a translational research platform, not for clinical use, although it can be used in experimental procedures with the approval of the ethics council and the patient involved. It is the user's responsibility to operate in accordance with local regulations and legislation. 3D Slicer has not been formally approved for clinical use by the FDA in the US or any other regulatory agency in other countries.

Characteristics

It is a free open source software license [BSD]), allows image registration, broadcast tractography processing, interface to external devices for image-guided imaging and GPU rendering of volumes, among other things.

It has a modular organization, which allows adding new functionalities adapted to the specific needs of each user.

It is in constant development by different international teams, based in universities and research centers (both public and private) in North America, Europe and Asia.

Functionalities

It allows the integration of multi-modal images, including all those previously mentioned as medical images; the interactive visualization possibilities include the construction of images by cuts in arbitrary planes, constructing surface models from image tags, and hardware-accelerated volume modeling. It also supports a wide range of logging skills such as fiducial, measurement utilities, custom color maps ...

Capacities

• Manage DICOM images and read / write other formats
• Interactive visualization of volumetric images of voxels, polygonal meshes and volume rendering
• Manual editing
• Fusion and co-registration of information using rigid and non-rigid algorithms
• Automatic image segmentation
• Analysis and visualization of images by diffusion tensors
• Device tracking in image-guided procedures

Requirements

Hardware

The recommended hardware configuration is:

• Display: a minimum resolution of 1024x768 (1280x1024 recommended)
• 4GB of memory (8GB recommended)
• Dedicated graphics card (recommended 1GB)
• Multi CPU
• Mouse or equivalent pointing device with two buttons and scroll wheel
• Internet connection to access online documentation and tutorials

Operating system

Versions recommended:

• Windows 7 64-bit
• Mac OS X Lion
• Linux: current versions of the most popular distributions should not present a problem (Ubuntu and Fedora, for example)