MIPG Developed Software

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Software development effort within 37 MIPG dates back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 43 first ever software package for 3D medical image visualization and 3e analysis was brought out in 1980 by MIPG [1] and subsequently 43 upgraded and distributed worldwide with source code [2] before the 42 term “open source” was coined for software exchange. With the 3b advent of computer workstations, these early packages were 3f substantially expanded and implemented on the newer machines. 5

3DVIEWNIX [3]: A data-, machine-, and application independent software system 3f for the visualization and analysis of multidimensional images, 45 released in 1993, was a UNIX and X-windows based software system for 46 the interactive visualization, manipulation, processing, and analysis 44 of multidimensional, multimodality image data. This system has been 44 distributed to 100s of sites worldwide and to 191 sites with source 45 code. Several specialized packages have been developed based on this 45 system for specific medical applications over the years.

CAVASS [4] is the most recent in the lineage of software MIPG developed and 45 distributed. It subsumes 3DVIEWNIX. Additionally, its implementation 40 is for Windows, UNIX, and Linux and is parallelized for compute 40 intensive operations to work on computer clusters in a portable 14 manner.

[1] Udupa, J.K.: Display - A system 46 of programs for two- and three-dimensional display of medical objects 40 from CT data, Technical Report MIPG41, Medical Image Processing 42 Group, Department of Computer Science, SUNY/Buffalo, Buffalo, New 1d York, 1980 (112 pages).
29 [2] Udupa, J.K.: DISPLAY82 - A system of 41 programs for the display of 3D information in CT data, Technical 3d Report MIPG67, Medical Image Processing Group, Department of 45 Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 1983 (205 d pages).
39 [3] Udupa, J.K. Odhner, D., Samarasekera, S., Goncalves, 41 R., Iyer, K., Venugopal, K., and Furuie, S.: 3DVIEWNIX: An open, 40 transportable, multidimensional, multimodality, multiparametric 51 imaging software system, SPIE Proceedings,2164:58-73, 1994.
18 [4] Grevera, G., Udupa, 44 J.K., Odhner, D., Zhuge, Y., Souza, A., Iwanaga, T. and Mishra, S.: 40 CAVASS: A computer-assisted visualization and analysis software 31 system, Journal of Digital Imaging, 20: 12 101–118. 2007. 5

7 CAVASS 44 and 3DVIEWNIX can be downloaded from the following site:

[CAVASS]: 1d Released Version for Windows d platform. We 41 do not have a Windows installer for CAVASS at this time. On most 45 Windows platforms the package can be extracted and run in place. (Do 40 not remove cavass.exe from the Release folder; you can create a 45 shortcut to cavass.exe and move the shortcut to the desktop or other e location.) It 9e may be necessary to install a runtime library: download VC_redist.x64.exe and run it.

[CAVASS]: 41 Source code; there is also a file linux-install-notes.txt in the 44 source bundle with instructions for installing under OpenSUSE Linux f or Ubuntu.

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[CAVASS]: 46 GitHub Repository containing CAVASS source bundle for Linux, Windows, 42 and Mac OS platforms; Refer to the README section which contains 38 instructions and install notes for these OS platforms. 5

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[3DVIEWNIX]: 85 A data-, machine-, and application- independent software system for the visulization and analysis of multidimensional images, source 17 code; user manual.

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