MicroView

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MicroView is an open source, dual-licensed, 3D image viewer, currently developed by Parallax Innovations. It includes many image analysis tools and plug-ins. It can be installed on most computers running Windows XP to Win 8.1.  A version for select Linux distributions and Mac OS X systems is also available.
This software represents a new development effort, based on the original open-source version hosted on sourceforge.  It has not been officially released, but is available for early testing.  In the meanwhile, check our blog and Google+ page for regular progress updates on this product.

Developer Preview

We are busy preparing the next generation of MicroView, and are making development snapshots available for testing for an audience who doesn't mind helping us test.  A public bug tracker can be found here.  For those who prefer a more stable but older release, the 32-bit-only versions of MicroView can be found here.

Older Releases (Archive)



2015-02-02: MicroView 2.5.0-b22 Release (2.5.0-2623):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • Faster DICOMDIR update code added
  • CT Toolbox: Image unwarp added
  • Standard ROI:  report ROI memory/file size
Fixes:
  • DICOMDIR dialog fixes
  • Locale improvements
  • Various VTK-6 compatibility fixes
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2015-01-23: MicroView 2.5.0-b21 Release (2.5.0-2589):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • DICOMDIR export mechanism added
Fixes:
  • VTK-6 portability fixes to isosurface and ROI manager plugins
  • Unicode fixes
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2015-01-09: MicroView 2.5.0-b20 Release (2.5.0-2566):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • Minor display improvement to in-place filters
  • Automatic update infrastructure added (plugins are now able to install missing dependencies)
  • VTK-6 portability layer added (a work in progress)
  • Colour bar display added (in preparation of image registration and fusion plugin)
Fixes:
  • Image tile now sorts tabs by number
  • Histogram/m-key stats update fix
  • Slice thickness fixes to DICOM image import
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2014-12-17: MicroView 2.5.0-b19 Release (2.5.0-2436):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • Demo pushed out until 2015-02-01
  • GPU volume rendering for Mac platform
Fixes:
  • Serial ROI bug fixes and speed-ups
  • Various other minor bug fixes
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2014-11-18: MicroView 2.5.0-b18 Release (2.5.0-2382):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • http proxy support added to permit licensing from behind corporate firewalls
  • better support for linearly transformed images added
  • GPU-accelerated volume rendering for OS X platform enabled
  • Support for VTK structured grid file formats added

Fixes:
  • bug fixes to basic bone application
  • bug fixes to histogram tool

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2014-11-13: MicroView 2.5.0-b17 Release (2.5.0-2359):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • improved documentation
  • save/load of image linear transforms added (MNI tag/xfm format)
  • memory usage reduced in some VTK pipelines
  • support added for display of VTK structured grids
  • CSV file handling improvements

Fixes:
  • various dicom fixes   

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2014-10-02: MicroView 2.5.0-b16 Release (2.5.0-2314):

Changelog:

Improvements:
  • improved documentation and screenshots
  • improved application bitmaps
  • plugin licensing feature added
  • support for 2D filters added for hyperstacks
  • win32: upgraded dependent packages; wx upgraded to 3.0.1
  • first public release: demo of advanced ROI tool (replacement for GE's serial ROI tool)

Fixes:
  •     bug that prevented proper use of image filters and volume renderer
  •     bug that prevented point poicker to save lists of points to disk
  •     window/level display fixes
  •     fixes to VG Studio Max image reader (both VGL and VGI extensions load okay)
  •     OS X: layout fixes on Mac platform
  •     OS X: avoid double icons appearing in dock

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2014-08-29: MicroView 2.5.0-b15 Release (2.5.0-2246):
ChangeLog:
  • OS X start-up and double-click behaviour fixes
  • DICOM fixes
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2014-08-16: MicroView 2.5.0-b14 Release (2.5.0-2227):
ChangeLog:
  • ROI bug fixes
  • Instability (especially on OS X) fixes
  • Docker support added (builds now include OpenSUSE)
  • Image view sync added (precursor to full registration tool)
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2014-07-09: MicroView 2.5.0-b13 Release (2.5.0-2170):
ChangeLog:
  • ROI Management tool bug fixes and speed improvements
  • Instability (especially on OS X) fixes
  • Additional fixes to histogram tool
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2014-07-03: MicroView 2.5.0-b12 Release (2.5.0-2152):
ChangeLog:
  • Demo date extended to September 1, 2014
  • Experimental GPU-accelerated isosurface volume renderer added
  • GUI improvements to geometry tool
  • DICOM bug fixes
  • Improved slice selector
  • Additional image filters added
  • Fixes to ROI management and histogram tool
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2014-06-03: MicroView 2.5.0-b11 Release (2.5.0-2102):
ChangeLog:
  • Click-to-focus added to notebook tabs
  • Bonjour fixes
  • VGI file format reader improvements
  • DICOM import improvements
  • 64-bit double-precision float VFF support added
  • Ubuntu 14.04 platform support added
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2014-05-12: MicroView 2.5.0-b10 Release (2.5.0-2038):
ChangeLog:
  • Logging-related bug fixes
  • Improvements for adaptive thresholding function
  • Improvements to plugin load time
Download:
  • Windows 64-bit installer: download
  • Windows 32-bit installer: download
  • OS X Intel universal installer (OS X 10.8+): download
2014-04-28: MicroView 2.5.0-b9 Release (2.5.0-2027):
ChangeLog:
  • CT Toolbox plugin added with HU calibration tool, image correction tool and ringfix tool
  • Polygon coincidence flicker issue fixed
  • Improvements to layout manager to support side-by-side image registration
  • Chrome-style popup menus over each window tab added
  • Tweaks to right-mouse-button context menus
  • CUDA packaging (optionally used by ringfix algorithm for the moment)
  • Bug fixes for movie-maker tool and a switch to OpenCV as the default renderer
Download:
  • Windows 64-bit installer: download
  • Windows 32-bit installer: download
  • OS X Intel universal installer (OS X 10.8+): download
2014-03-19: MicroView 2.5.0-b8 Release (2.5.0-1914):
ChangeLog:
  • Bug fixes to standard ROI tool (text entry works properly again)
  • Multi-channel image support for shell tool added
  • Reorganization of code to improve memory management
  • Simple movie-maker tool added (avi and ogv support only for the moment)
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2014-02-27: MicroView 2.5.0-b7 Release (2.5.0-1844):
ChangeLog:
  • Bug fixes to 64-bit Windows release that prevented b6 from starting on some machines
  • Bug fixes to DICOM and VFF loading
  • Improvements to raw image importer (image flip)
  • Interactive shell added (see Google+ note)
  • Additional image filters added
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2014-01-20: MicroView 2.5.0-b6 Release (2.5.0-1788):
ChangeLog:
  • Improved GPU volume rendering:
    • multiple levels of detail - makes tool more interactive
    • volume cropping added
  • DICOM push tool added
  • Installer: bonjour service automatically added during installation
  • OS X changes:
    • drag&drop to load image added
    • keyboard interaction with VTK window no longer causes an audible beep


2013-11-26: MicroView 2.5.0-b4 Release (2.5.0-1690):
ChangeLog:
  • Improved Window/Level dialog (interactive histogram added)
  • Application persistence (MicroView remembers window/tab positioning)
  • Better support for VTK xml-format images and polydata
  • Standard ROI plugin:  ROI objects can now be reoriented freely
  • Math plugin: supports basic operations involving constants as well as images
  • Camera/Transform plugin added

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2013-09-04: MicroView 2.5.0-b1 Release (2.5.0-1549):
ChangeLog:
  • First beta release of 2.5.0
  • Minor bug fixes
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