Computer Vision News - September 2020

Open Source Software 16 This software provides a complete medical imaging analysis tool based on a set of modules grouped by application. Among these, we have the most common ones in the field, including a cardiac toolkit, a diffusion section (with Tractography ROI Seeding), Endoscopy, Microscopy and Radiotherapy ones. As expected, the most common required techniques (segmentation & registration) for medical imaging are among these. The window on the side can be displayed by clicking on the drop-down menu called Modules in the main window. 3D Slicer & Landmark Registration Hi all! This month we review a free open source software called 3D Slicer and available for download here. This is a project born in 1998 within the Surgical Planning Laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It’s a GUI based software and it relies on two other common frameworks in medical analysis (VTK -> for visualization purposes, ITK -> for segmentation and registration applications). Although its first release was in 2000, 3D Slicer is often updated and its latest stable version has actually been released in May 2019. Both C++ and Python are employed for the core implementation and visualization of 3D slicer, while for the user interface Qt is used. by Marica Muffoletto