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)

2013-08-30: MicroView 2.5.0-a31 Release (2.5.0-1527):
ChangeLog:
  • Standard ROI plugin improvements:  GUI components now link with ROI
  • Minor bug fixes


2013-08-01: MicroView 2.5.0-a30 Release (2.5.0-1433):
ChangeLog:
  • Repackaged on OSX to avoid installation issue (dmg file rather than pkg)
  • Plugin added to display image/camera info (save/restore to be added later)
  • Minor bug fixes


2013-07-22: MicroView 2.5.0-a29 Release (2.5.0-1411):
ChangeLog:
  • Demo date extended until 2013-08-01
  • Path length calculator added to Point Picker plugin
  • DICOMDIR support added
  • Scanco ISQ file format reader added


2013-07-04: MicroView 2.5.0-a28 Release (2.5.0-1367):
ChangeLog:
  • Continuation of  GPU reconstruction work queue
  • Improved error logging
  • Fiducial marker plugin added (Plugins→Point Picker...)
  • DICOM import/export improvements
  • Window/Level popup menu added


2013-06-05: MicroView 2.5.0-a27 Release (2.5.0-1240):
ChangeLog:
  • virtualenv build support added
  • Demo date extended until 2013-08-01
  • Simple image math plugin added (add/subtract/multiply/divide images)
  • BioRad image reader support added
  • Skeleton for GPU reconstruction work queue added


2013-04-22: MicroView 2.5.0-a26 Release (2.5.0-1205):
ChangeLog:
  • Some internal shuffling of code: if MicroView complains about zope database contents being corrupt, please restart application - this should only happen once
  • Licensing infrastructure added to MicroView
  • Flood-fill region growing plugin added
  • ROI-related bug fixes
  • Improved support for Inveon file format
  • Bug fixes related to DICOM image orientation


2013-04-01: MicroView 2.5.0-a25 Release (2.5.0-1125):
ChangeLog:
  • Display bug under X11 which prevented multiple windows to be opened fixed
  • Demo date extended to June 1, 2013


2013-03-23: MicroView 2.5.0-a24 Release (2.5.0-1114):
ChangeLog:
  • MIP/MinIP plugin improvements
  • Bug fixes for anisotropic smoothing code
  • Bug fixes for histogram ROI selection mechanisms
  • Delayed-rendering employed in plotting code to increase responsiveness of MicroView
  • WebP image reader support added (not yet available on OS X)
  • Better display handling for 2D images


2013-03-14: MicroView 2.5.0-a23 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • RLE-compression support added to the Amira image reader
  • Colour-table refresh fixes
  • Optimization of image loading chain - based on recent profiling work - slight improvement to startup time
  •  Bug fixes to internal VFF-to-DICOM conversion code - ensure all vffs can be loaded still


2013-03-10: MicroView 2.5.0-a22 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Bug fixes for image import dialog: basic image import works again
  • New feature: Image import dialog contains an image preview feature - useful for loading raw data
  • DICOM fixes to support importing BioScan image data
  • Improvements made to when plot widget appears on screen
  • Improvements made to image info plugin - date editor improved
  • Image invert: handles multi-channel images correctly
  • New features: median filter and anisotropic edge-preserving smoothing filters added

2013-02-28: MicroView 2.5.0-a21 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Bug fixes for standard ROI tool; improved multi-image awareness
  • DICOM-related bug fixes
  • Upgraded to ITK 4.3.1

2013-02-19: MicroView 2.5.0-a20 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Improved DICOM support - all image readers maintain DICOM tags to improve data exchange between formats
  • Support added for colour LUT changes
  • Improved window/level scrollbars - handle floating point images better
  • Improved support for Siemens preclinical PET data format


2013-02-10: MicroView 2.5.0-a19 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Improved VG Studio Max image reader support
  • Development moved to Windows 8 / Visual Studio 2012

2013-01-25: MicroView 2.5.0-a18 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Demo pushed out until April 1, 2013
  • GPU-accelerated volume renderer added - rewrite of GUI interface components - may need tuning on machines without recent video adapters

2012-12-01: MicroView 2.5.0-a17 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Demo pushed out until Feb 1, 2013
  • Data conduit plugin added: read arrays contained within MATLAB™ .mat files and IDL™ .sav files (limited file support for the moment; not available for 32-bit OSX yet)

2012-11-25: MicroView 2.5.0-a16 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Control panel for volume rendering tool added (a work in progress)
  • Plot UI scaling improvements (plot labels move/scale correctly after a window resize)
  • Plugin loading speed improvements and support for user plugin directory added (plugins may be installed to a user directory by drag&dropping them onto MicroView)

2012-11-18: MicroView 2.5.0-a15 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Improvements to 16 bit TIFF support; new VG Studio Max vgi file format support added (read-only)
  • Read-only support for displaying CSV- and Excel-format files

2012-11-08: MicroView 2.5.0-a14 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • More bug-fixes related to multi-image awareness - tabs behave more like a web browser in terms of how and when images replace contents of existing tabs
  • Z-slider wired-up: convenient for 2D image slicing
  • Second experimental release for Ubuntu Linux with improvements to dialog layout (tested on 11.04, 12.04 and 12.10 only)

2012-10-31: MicroView 2.5.0-a13 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • OS X build: binaries released now as 32-bit/64-bit universal binaries for 10.6+
  • OS X build: common menu commands fixed (e.g. ⌘-Q exits the application)
  • OS X build: plot tool display bug fixed
  • More bug-fixes related to multi-image awareness
  • First experimental release for Ubuntu Linux (tested on 12.04 and 12.10 only)

2012-10-19: MicroView 2.5.0-a12 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • General stability improvements regarding the new multi-image aware capabilities - some plugins save/restore state during switches between images
  • EXIF tags parsed for JPEG and TIFF images
  • "Demo expired" bug fix

2012-10-15: MicroView 2.5.0-a11 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • MicroView is now multi-image aware - each new image is loaded into a separate tab (partially implemented)
  • Configuration change - ZODB-based object persistence added as primary configuration/customization
  • Background display is more customizable
  • Splash-screen and status-bar improvements
  • Nifti and FITS file format reader support added
  • Crash-on-exit bug fixed
  • Improved DICOM support, including bonjour-based detection of Osirix workstations
  • OSX drag-and-drop support added; proper menu and dock integration added
  • OSX build now requires 10.7+ (10.6 will return in the next release hopefully)
  • ITK upgraded to 4.2.1

2012-09-06: MicroView 2.5.0-a10 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • More Tkinter → wxPython conversion; general stability improvements
  • New plugin architecture: MicroView plugins are now distributed as python eggs
  • Basic bone application ported and functional
  • OSX build no longer requires X; built on 10.8 Mountain Lion

2012-08-30: MicroView 2.5.0-a9 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Continued development of wxpython replacements for original Tkinter app components; general stability improvements
  • New plugin architecture:  I/O layer in MicroView is now extendable via plugins
  • New plugin: rescale
  • New plugin: slab projector

2012-08-21: MicroView 2.5.0-a8 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Major overhaul: Tkinter replaced with wxpython - expect lots of missing content for the next few months or so

2012-07-14: MicroView 2.5.0-a7 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • Image value dump improvements
  • Remove broken DND support from OSX build

2012-06-05: MicroView 2.5.0-a6 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • DICOM reader fixes
Note: if either Windows version crashes on start, try installing the Visual Studio 2010 runtime libraries for x86 and x64, respectively.

2012-05-24: MicroView 2.5.0-a5 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • upgraded to VTK 5.10.0

2012-05-18: MicroView 2.5.0-a4 Release:
ChangeLog:
  • fixed a crash in the bone analysis app

2012-05-17: MicroView 2.5.0-a3 Release:
ChangeLog:

2012-03-02: MicroView 2.5.0-a2 Release:
ChangeLog:

2012-02-27: MicroView 2.5.0-a1 Release:
ChangeLog: