A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Current imaging methods such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Confocal microscopy, Electron Microscopy (EM) or Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) yield three-dimensional (3D) data sets in need of appropriate computati...
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| author | Longair Mark Cardona Albert Schindelin Johannes Schmid Benjamin Heisenberg Martin |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Current imaging methods such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Confocal microscopy, Electron Microscopy (EM) or Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) yield three-dimensional (3D) data sets in need of appropriate computational methods for their analysis. The reconstruction, segmentation and registration are best approached from the 3D representation of the data set.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Here we present a platform-independent framework based on Java and Java 3D for accelerated rendering of biological images. Our framework is seamlessly integrated into ImageJ, a free image processing package with a vast collection of community-developed biological image analysis tools. Our framework enriches the ImageJ software libraries with methods that greatly reduce the complexity of developing image analysis tools in an interactive 3D visualization environment. In particular, we provide high-level access to volume rendering, volume editing, surface extraction, and image annotation. The ability to rely on a library that removes the low-level details enables concentrating software development efforts on the algorithm implementation parts.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Our framework enables biomedical image software development to be built with 3D visualization capabilities with very little effort. We offer the source code and convenient binary packages along with extensive documentation at <url>http://3dviewer.neurofly.de</url>.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9246952a15cf4d3dafac8622de2db50d2022-12-22T02:41:09ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052010-05-0111127410.1186/1471-2105-11-274A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJLongair MarkCardona AlbertSchindelin JohannesSchmid BenjaminHeisenberg Martin<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Current imaging methods such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Confocal microscopy, Electron Microscopy (EM) or Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) yield three-dimensional (3D) data sets in need of appropriate computational methods for their analysis. The reconstruction, segmentation and registration are best approached from the 3D representation of the data set.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Here we present a platform-independent framework based on Java and Java 3D for accelerated rendering of biological images. Our framework is seamlessly integrated into ImageJ, a free image processing package with a vast collection of community-developed biological image analysis tools. Our framework enriches the ImageJ software libraries with methods that greatly reduce the complexity of developing image analysis tools in an interactive 3D visualization environment. In particular, we provide high-level access to volume rendering, volume editing, surface extraction, and image annotation. The ability to rely on a library that removes the low-level details enables concentrating software development efforts on the algorithm implementation parts.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Our framework enables biomedical image software development to be built with 3D visualization capabilities with very little effort. We offer the source code and convenient binary packages along with extensive documentation at <url>http://3dviewer.neurofly.de</url>.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/274 |
| spellingShingle | Longair Mark Cardona Albert Schindelin Johannes Schmid Benjamin Heisenberg Martin A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ BMC Bioinformatics |
| title | A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ |
| title_full | A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ |
| title_fullStr | A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ |
| title_full_unstemmed | A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ |
| title_short | A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ |
| title_sort | high level 3d visualization api for java and imagej |
| url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/274 |
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