Table 1.
Assessment of a wide array of software applications for viewing and segmenting DICOM images
| Software | Aeskulaps | Amide | BiolmageXD | Dicompyler | Endrov | Eview Box | Fusion Viewer | Gimias | ImageJ | image Vis3D | In-Vesalius | ITK-Snap 1.5* | ITK-Snap 2.2 | Mayam | Mango | Micro View | MITK 3 m3 | Mito | Osirix | 3D Slicer | Seg 3D | Synedra View P | Amira® | Ginko-CADx-pro® | Mimics® | Synapse 3D® | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Features | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data import | Images | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Set | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||
| Series | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Directory | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
| Data export | Images | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Series | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| Anonimyze | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Support | doc | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| wiki | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| forum | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| Source Code | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
| OS | Windows | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Linux | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||
| Macintosh | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||
| 2D viewer | Windowing | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| CLUT | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||
| Histogram | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||
| Info | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
| Measure | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Notes | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||
| 3D viewer | Slice scroll | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| MPR | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| CPR | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MIP | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||
| VR | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| CLUT | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||
| SSD | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||
| Usability | GUI | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| Clarity | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | |
| Speed | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
X features of the software applications
aOpen-source application ITK-Snap provided with the EndoCAS pipeline [14]