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------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Xenophon Papademetris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:18 AM To: 'Debian Med Project List' Subject: BioImage Suite 2.5 released Since there was some discussion (and misunderstandings) on BioImage Suite posted on Debian-med late last year, I am forwarding on the release announcement for BioImage Suite 2.5. With some help (and prodding) of Dominique Belhachemi we have made all the changes necessary in the source code and config files for this to compile and run OK on Debian 4.02 (using gcc 4.1.2) – although we have not run the full set of GUI and regression tests on Debian – this will happen eventually. Incidentally, BioImage Suite is released under GPL v2 -- if there is a serious reason for a GPL v3 licensed version we are open to dual-licensing if this would help. Regarding incorporating BioImage Suite into Debian as a package, the sticky point right now is that BioImage Suite relies on vtk 4.4 (which compiles on Debian just fine by the way). My understanding is that there is a vtk-5 package in Debian – however the differences between VTK 4.4 and 5.0 are substantial and this cannot be used. We are beginning work on BioImage Suite 3.0 (there is an internal alpha version) which will use vtk 5.2 (if that’s what the next version will be called, there is some debate on this). Xenios ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The BioImage Suite team (www.bioimagesuite.org) is happy to make available the official release 2.5 of BioImage Suite.5. This supplants the 2.0 release (from February 2007) as the official version of BioImage Suite. Binary versions are made available for: * MS-Windows (2000/XP/VISTA) * Mac OS X 10.4 (both intel and powerpc) * Linux 32-bit * Linux 64-bit * FreeBSD In addition complete source code is made available under the terms of the GPL v2. You may download it from http://bioimagesuite.org/download/Install.html using the same username and password that can be found at http://research.yale.edu/bioimagesuite/forum/index.php?topic=88.0 (You must be registered on the forum to access this information.) In addition we are be teaching a weekly tutorial course on Medical Image Analysis & BioImage Suite. All handouts/notes from this class are being made available online at http://research.yale.edu/bioimagesuite/course/. New Features over 2.0 -------------------------------- * Mostly complete support for the NIFTI file format -- see http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/ for more details on NIFTI. * More pervasive image objectmap editing (An objectmap is an image in which each value represents a different structure). This is now available both in the Surface Editor as before, but also in multi-slice editing modes as part of the Mosaic Objectmap Editor and Orthogonal Object Map Editor. * A preview of the BioImage Suite fMRI tools (still in beta format, being ported over from the internal version which is based on VTK 4.0 and not easily redistributable). * A new animation tool for recording animations and saving them as a set of .jpeg or .tif files for creating movies for presentation. * Integration with FSL v 4.0. (Previously BioImage Suite required FSL v 3.1). This needs to be downloaded separately -- see http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/ -- and be available in your path. * Integration with the WFU pick atlas -- you need to download this from www.fmri.wfubmc.edu. Install this either in an adjacent directory to BioImage Suite (e.g. /usr/local or C:\yale) or set the environment variable WFUATLASDIR to point to the atlas location. * A Levelset segmentation module with a version of the Chan-Vese algorithm and local modifications. * A variety of small and large improvements in the underlying architecture. We have eliminated the last few pieces of code that could not have been redistributed under the GPL with "clean" code resulting in BioImage Suite becoming a completely open source package for the first time. We still, however, strongly recommend that the binary releases be used, as they have been properly tested. BioImage Suite is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under grant R01 EB006494. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
