Medical Image Viewer
Includes DICOM anonymizer. Can open DICOM/ACR/NEMA/PAPYRUS, Analyze, Nifti, and Raster images (jpg, tiff, gif, etc)
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What is MIView
MIview is an OpenGL based medical image viewer that contains useful tools such as a DICOM anonymizer and format conversion utility. MIView can read DICOM, Analyze/Nifti, and raster images, and can write Analyze/Nifti and raster images. It can also read and convert DICOM mosaic images. The main goal of MIView is to provide a platform to load any type of medical image and be able to view and manipulate the image. Volume rendering is the main type of advanced visualization that I'm trying to implement. With modern graphics cards supporting multiple shader elements, such as the ATI's X850 supporting 12 parallel shading units and NVidia's 8800GT supporting 112 shading units, the ability of current hardware to render computationally intensive scenes is becoming common enough for most users to be able to view volume rendered images in real time.

How to get MIView
MIView is free to download. Current version is 0.6 build 371 (August 5, 2008). Currently, only the Windows platform is supported.

Requirements
For visualization, you must have at least a 1.5GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and a video card that supports at least OpenGL 2.0. For conversion and anonymizer, any hardware will work, but you must have enough RAM to load the data you want for conversion.

Known issues
  • Multislice view is not displaying correctly
  • When changing color map values in the editor, the main display may flicker

Report a bug
Bugs are common! You will not have to look hard to find one. Since there are so many datatypes and formats for medical images, bugs are bound to occur when handling them. If you find a bug, send an email me with a detailed description of how it happened, your hardware configuration, and possibly the image you used when the problem occured. You can report the bug in the MIView forum, or search through the forum to see if anyone else has encountered the same bug.

Questions/Discussion
A forum is available for discussions about MIView, ask your questions here or answer other peoples questions. Also a forum for general medical imaging discussion.

Donate!
Find MIView useful? Donate to help continue it's development.


 News

August 15, 2008 - I'll be starting graduate school in a couple weeks, so development on MIView may slow down... Hopefully I'll be able to work on it as part of my studies. Of course I will find time to work on it during the breaks though.

August 4, 2008 - Completely redesigned color map editor! Color maps now accurately reflect alpha values.

June 4, 2008 - Rotation in ray casting (volume rendering) view works correctly.

May 23, 2008 - I've been trying to get volume rendering using ray casting to work since the last version. It works, but the volume entry position and direction weren't working correctly. In a single plane, it worked, but not when rotating it. I should have ray casting working correctly in the next version. I've also added a dicom browser, which will be part of the next version.

March 12, 2008 - Signed images are correctly displayed! I'll post a series of test dicom images from Dave Clunie so people can verify on their own.

February 24, 2008 - Created a forum for discussion about MIView

February 22, 2008 - Fixed many many bugs. Now ready for general use.

February 2008 - Implemented the conversion utility and the ability to read and convert 3D and 4D DICOM mosaic images. Available in the newest build version.

January 2008 - Began implementing ray-casting based volume rendering.

Jan 23, 2008 - Compiled 64-bit binary... but wouldn't run on Windows XP x64. Something wrong with the VC++ redistributables.


Main Screen - MIView's main screen with color mapping applied to an image


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