VolView 3.0 is out.
CLIFTON PARK, NY (02/23/2009; 1621)(readMedia)– Kitware is pleased to announce the release of VolView 3.0. VolView is an intuitive, interactive system for volume visualization that allows researchers to quickly explore and analyze complex 3D medical or scientific data on Windows, Mac and Linux computers. Users can easily load and interactively explore datasets using 2D and 3D display methods and tools. 3D tools include volume rendering, maximum intensity projections, and oblique reformatting. The ability to save an entire visualization session allows users to easily stop and start sessions. Advanced users can perform custom data processing using a simple plug-in API.
This release is a major upgrade of the VolView platform with several new capabilities including:
- A simplified user interface including a toolbar for quick access to commonly used tools
- Accelerated volume rendering including GPU acceleration on the Nvidia platform
- Easy application, creation, and management of 2D and 3D display presets
- The ability to load and display multiple datasets
- Improved image measurements including a Bezier contour tool
In addition to this, they’re adding new specialized segmentation algorithms, the first of which will be a CT Lung Lesion Sizing.
