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Friday, 19 December 2008 14:00 |
What is MIView
MIView is an OpenGL based medical image viewer that contains useful tools such as a DICOM anonymizer and format conversion utility. MIView can read DICOM, Analyze/Nifti, and raster images, and can write Analyze/Nifti and raster images. It can also read and convert DICOM mosaic images. The main goal of MIView is to provide a platform to load any type of medical image and be able to view and manipulate the image. Volume rendering is the main type of advanced visualization that I'm trying to implement. With modern graphics cards supporting multiple shader elements, such as the ATI's X850 supporting 12 parallel shading units and NVidia's 8800GT supporting 112 shading units, the ability of current hardware to render computationally intensive scenes is becoming common enough for most users to be able to view volume rendered images in real time.
How to get MIView
MIView is free to download. Current version is 0.6 build 383 (December 16, 2008). Currently, only the Windows platform is supported.
Requirements
For visualization, you must have at least a 1.5GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and a video card that supports at least OpenGL 2.0. For conversion and anonymizer, any hardware will work, but you must have enough RAM to load the data you want for conversion.
Known issues
- Multislice view is not displaying correctly
- When changing color map values in the editor, the main display may flicker
- ObjectDock can interfere with OpenGL in main window
Report a bug
Bugs are common! You will not have to look hard to find one. Since there are so many datatypes and formats for medical images, bugs are bound to occur when handling them. If you find a bug, send an email me with a detailed description of how it happened, your hardware configuration, and possibly the image you used when the problem occurred. You can report the bug in the MIView forum, or search through the forum to see if anyone else has encountered the same bug.
Questions/Discussion
A forum is available for discussions about MIView, ask your questions here or answer other peoples questions. Also a forum for general medical imaging discussion.
Donate!
Find MIView useful? Donate to help continue it's development. History
Medical Image Viewer (MIView) was started in late 2004 by Greg Book as a program to read/write and display multiple medical image formats. My main goal is to create a simple and powerful program to provide useful visualization of medical images. Visualization methods will include planar views, orthogonal, multi-planar reconstruction (MPR), maximum intensity projection (MIP), volume rendering, and surface shaded display (SSD).
MIView is currently free to download.
If you encounter any bugs (probably a lot!) or think of improvements (probably even more!) to the program, email me at gbook(at)gbook(dot)org. MIView is built with the help of the following packages: - OpenGL - Graphics library for rendering
- wxWidgets - GUI framework.
- gdcm - Grassroot DICOM package. Used for reading Dicom files.
- ANFI - Nifti File I/O library
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